Distance Quote by Abraham Lincoln

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…

— Abraham Lincoln

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor…

— Frederick Law Olmsted

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

— Mike Tyson

“Virginia lawmakers made slave patrols compulsory for non-slaveholding Whites; these groups of White citizens were charged with policing slaves, enforcing discipline, and guarding routes…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“By the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Virginia elites had taken the best land for themselves, leaving the former indentured servants land poor…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

— William Cowper

If you are competing with slaves, then you are a slave yourself.

— Anonymous

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed…

— Fanny Kemble

I say, then, that viewed from that standpoint, there is but one single subject of complaint which Virginia has to make against the government…

— John Brown Baldwin

I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I…

— John C. Calhoun

Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living…

— Patrick Henry