American slavery Quote by James Henry Hammond

“My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning…

— Samuel Morse

Slavery was our nation's original sin.

— William Barr

If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its…

— Jefferson Davis

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

— Chrystia Freeland

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to…

— James F. Cooper

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to…

— Abraham Lincoln

The service of sin is perfect slavery.

— Matthew Henry

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

— Samuel Hopkins

I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which is slavery.

— Harry Lennix

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

— Derrick Jensen

The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent…

— Joyce Meyer

“Slavery is simply a possession of the mind, before the individual submits their spiritual component to the will of another person or deity.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo