Doe Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

— John Adams

“The white author, educated by the black nursemaid who also cured his illnesses and accepted his first searching caresses, was the “racial democrat” who…

— Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and…

— Alex Haley

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile…

— Hinton Rowan Helper

. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained…

— Robert Purvis

Slavery was ungodly, unrighteous, and unbiblical.

— Tony Evans

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source…

— Benjamin Franklin

It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in…

— Kenneth Cloke

The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult…

— Fanny Kemble

“The institution of slavery was, for a quarter millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for the profit…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn finer…

— N.K. Jemisin

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

— Jean Racine