My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story… — Afua Cooper Copy Share Image
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The greatest evil of American slavery was not involuntary servitude but rather the narrative of racial differences we created to legitimate slavery.… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery. — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
“American slavery was specifically racist slavery. It could not exist apart from racism, and could not be separated from it. Slavery was… — Joel McDurmon Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“The institution of slavery was, for a quarter millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
