Claims Quote by Gerrit Smith

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence…

— William H. Seward

“Having preserved the Union and saved white workers from competing with slave labor, the North could magnanimously acquiesce to such Confederate meretriciousness and the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

— Gerrit Smith

..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves,…

— Daniel Webster

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

— Mikhail Bakunin

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

— Susan B. Anthony

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present…

— Robert Toombs

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

— Salmon P. Chase

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument…

— John Brown

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

— John Quincy Adams

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies…

— Mikhail Bakunin

I dont think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument…

— John Brown