Slavery

"All the leading Founders affirmed on many occasions that blacks are created equal to whites and that slavery is wrong."

"The triumphs of Christianity rest this very hour upon slavery..."

"Louisiana looks to the formation of a southern confederacy to preserve the blessings of African slavery..."

"Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee! Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free!"

"Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliæ fines penetraverint eodem momento liberi sunt."

"Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave."

"No more slave States and no more slave territory."

"Cotton is King; or Slavery in the Light of Political Economy."

"It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude."

"Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit."

"Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus."

"Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves."

"Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell; involving both parties in atrocious criminality, and should be immediately annulled."

"The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will."

"The very mudsills of society. * * * We call them slaves. * * * But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal."

"Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away."

"[England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in."

"The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it."

"Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves."

"And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves."

"Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do."

"Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery! said I—still thou art a bitter draught."

"By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel."

"Where Slavery is there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is there Slavery cannot be."

"They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

"Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature."

"I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to do it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law."

"That execrable sum of all villanies commonly called the Slave-trade."

"A Christian! going, gone! Who bids for God's own image?—for his grace, Which that poor victim of the market-place Hath in her suffering won?"

"Our fellow-countrymen in chains! Slaves—in a land of light and law! Slaves—crouching on the very plains Where rolled the storm of Freedom's war!"

"What! mothers from their children riven! What! God's own image bought and sold! AMERICANS to market driven, And bartered as the brute for gold!"