Abolish Quote by Eric Foner

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their…

— William Loughton Smith

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which…

— John C. Calhoun

“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

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief…

— Abraham Lincoln

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

— Thomas Huxley

The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor…

— John Coleman

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

“Abolition is not some disstant future but something we create in every moment when we say no to the traps of empire and yes…

— Eric A. Stanley

“The present struggle between the South and North is, therefore, nothing but a struggle between two social systems, the system of slavery and the…

— Karl Marx

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of thepeople who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them…

— Anonymous