The real slavery of Israel in Egypt was that they had learned to endure it.
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
As to the policy I ‘seem to be pursuing’ as You say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be the ‘Union as it […]
You have seen how a man was made a slave, you shall see how a slave was made a man.
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.
In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free, – honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve
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 […]
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.
