[T]he West did not invent slavery; the West ended slavery.

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

— Edward Ball

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to…

— Christopher Dawson

I can't say with certainty that slavery would have ended more quickly and more completely if the South had been allowed to leave and…

— David Swanson

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

— Ron Paul

In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual,…

— Richard J. Maybury

“Bear in mind, now, that most of this work was done by men who had no intention whatever, when they enlisted, of making war…

— Bruce Catton

Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation,…

— Susan Jacoby

“[Emerson] saw, in the beginning, no difference between abolitionism and the institutionalized religion he had rejected in the Divinity School address. They were both…

— Louis Menand

In trying to address the systemic problem of racial injustice, we would do well to look at abolitionism, because here is a movement of…

— Manisha Sinha

“It's both a tremendous obligation and honor to undertake the unfulfilled work of the best of our abolitionist precursors--those who did not only want…

— Dylan Rodriguez

“it would have been better never to have made a sacrifice of blood and treasure to save the Union than to have the democratic…

— Ron Chernow

“Animal welfarism is a blatant lie. Anyone who truly cares for the welfare of another, would never dream of exploiting them. For just as…

— Mango Wodzak

We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the…

— Manisha Sinha

Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.

— Ibn Warraq

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

— Anonymous