No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate.
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
A slave, branded on the forehead by his master, saved him when proscribed. Thus, while the life of the master was preserved, his infamy was perpetuated.
The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example.
But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.
Why do you maim your slave, Ponticus, by cutting out his tongue? Don’t you know that the public says what he cannot?
Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will never even stop to learn.
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Lincoln was known to have told one of this generals, Daniel H. Chamberlain, that he considered himself “only an instrument” in the antislavery struggle. “The logic and power of (William Lloyd) Garrison,” said Lincoln, “and the antislavery people of the country and the army, have done it all.”
You had better all die – die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.
Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
