American Quote by Edward Ball

Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they spread their…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

— Victor Hugo

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

— Abraham Lincoln

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.

— Robert Toombs

“From 1783 at the end of the American Revolution to 1861, the number of slaves in the United States increased five times over, and…

— Edward E. Baptist

There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the…

— Nelson Mandela

Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

— Manisha Sinha

We have become the new american slaves: but there is a revolution coming. It is a revolution of individual liberty. It will free us…

— Gerry Spence

A lot of enslaved people actually made money, but they had no power.

— William C. Rhoden

In the 1850s, as the numbers of Americans who were not invested in the slave system grew, the South's leaders felt they had to…

— Heather Cox Richardson

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

— Jordan Peele