If slavery is not distinctly Western, what is? The movement to end slavery! Abolition is an exclusively Western institution. The historian J.M. Roberts writes, “No civilization once dependent on slavery has ever been able to eradicate it, except the Western.”… Never in the history of the world, outside of the West, has a group of […]
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free
I freed th’ slave, Hennesy, but faith, I think ’twas like turnin’ him out iv th’ pa-antry into th’ cellar. You can’t do ennythin’ more f’r him than make him free. Ye can’t, Hennessy, only when ye tell ’em they’re free, they kno-ow we’re only stringin. them.
The whole Bible was written by slave owners, and for slave owners. There is no hint of criticism of slavery anywhere in that book. Jesus made no objection to mistreatment of slaves. He indicated that selling of debtors into slavery would be continued his forthcoming kingdom of heaven as well as masters having the right […]
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves.
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
