To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart… — Henry Clarke Wright Copy Share Image
One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery. — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
I link dar's many a slaveholder'll git to Heaven. Dey don't know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab. — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud,… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Copy Share Image
Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on,” — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
“the British became the world's largest slaveholders in their Western Hemisphere colonies in the Caribbean.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The idea that the country should be led by white men goes back to antebellum slaveholders, who argued that the world was… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our… — David Walker Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, however, when chided by their slaves or others, slaveholders did act in concert with the better selves of their paternalist rhetoric.… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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