Confederation Quote by Jefferson Davis

It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as…

— Lysander Spooner

Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed…

— Lysander Spooner

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

— Mikhail Bakunin

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the…

— William H. Seward

The Confederacy was formed for the purpose of seceding from the Union because those states could not part with their rights to own slaves.

— Jack Schlossberg

Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion…

— John Brown

“If Jefferson and the Founders knew that all men are created equal, why not outlaw slavery from the outset? The simple answer is that…

— Dinesh D'Souza

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

— Karl Marx

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the…

— Jefferson Davis

There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It…

— Clint Smith