Abuse Quote by Jefferson Davis

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

— John Adams

“Many politicians and preachers defended slavery, citing the Bible’s approval of the practice, the inferiority of the African race, the value of preserving the…

— Steven Pinker

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily…

— John Adams

“You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The Negro is…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.”

— John Adams

No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that…

— Thomas Jefferson

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of a new…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

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

— Andrew Johnson

“Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know…

— James A. Baldwin