Consequence Quote by James Madison

The difference between freedom and slavery is one thin line

— Banksy

“The prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They…

— Lysander Spooner

The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion…

— Isham G. Harris

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

— Paul Mooney

“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes and interpretations…

— Andrew Himes

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity…

— David Mamet

Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American…

— David Swanson

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

— Mikhail Bakunin

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

— John Quincy Adams

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

— Andrew Johnson

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern,…

— William H. Seward