Abolition Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is,…

— Anonymous

I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“It is a mistaken opinion that prevails in some quarters that the slave does not understand the term - does not comprehend the idea…

— Solomon Northup

Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America. Before them…

— Lorne Greene

“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by…

— Mark Twain

“It has come as a great revelation to me that abolitionist is different from the desire for racial equality. Color prejudice is at the…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was the key…

— Andrew P. Napolitano

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily…

— John Adams

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

— Andrew Johnson

Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American…

— David Swanson