In America you’ll get food to eat, Won’t have to run through the jungle, And scuff up your feet, You’ll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day, It’s great to be an American, Ain’t no lions or tigers ain’t no mamba snake, Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake, Ev’rybody is as […]
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
Since outright slavery has been discredited, democracy is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
Some African writers, seeking to maximise the culpability of Europe in the slave trade, minimise the part played by African rulers and traders or explain it as the result of white trickery. Such distortion of history may make the moral case against European imperialism seem sharper, but it does nothing to aid the understanding by […]
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but like slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the […]
There is a beauteous plant (Sugar Cane) that grows In Western India’s sultry clime, Which makes, alas, the Black man’s woes, And also makes the White man’s crime. (1824)
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery… is his natural and normal condition. (Vice-President of the Confederacy, referring to the Confederate government: in Augusta, Georgia, March 30, 1861)
No slaves shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless with written orders from his master or employer, or in his company, with arms from one place to another. (A Bill Concerning Slaves)
And ne’er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves.
