Abolition Quote by Christopher Hitchens

It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and…

— Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

“By contrast, the subsequent waves of Puritans in their search for profits quickly uprooted all natives and sold many of them into slavery without…

— Jack Weatherford

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

— John Sergeant Wise

There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders.

— Robert Toombs

“The logic of evangelical Protestants in the 18th century led to an inescapable conclusion: If God was indeed no respecter of persons, and if…

— Andrew Himes

“The greatest abuse of all-the slave trade-was ended as a direct result of the political influence of evangelical Christians in Britain, who were connected…

— Thomas Sowell

Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let…

— Thomas Clarkson

“We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all…

— Frederick Douglass

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?

— Dillon Burroughs

In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation,…

— Susan Jacoby

“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes and interpretations…

— Andrew Himes