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It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do…

— Gerrit Smith

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

— John Quincy Adams

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

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

— Andrew Johnson

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

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which…

— Fanny Kemble

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the…

— Charles Dickens

“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 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

History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through…

— Leon Trotsky

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery…

— Angelina Grimke