“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery. — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
“It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery! — John Brown Copy Share Image
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image