Slaveholder Quotes
- To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way. — Stephen Ambrose
- The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder. — Henry Clarke Wright
- It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he… — Solomon Northup
- Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty. — Denis Kearney
- This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man… — William Winters