Anything Quote by John Brough

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

— Abraham Lincoln

Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both…

— Robert Toombs

..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves,…

— Daniel Webster

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

We must work together, across nations and sectors. Only then will we consign the hideous crime of slavery to the history books.

— Penny Mordaunt

The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can you subdue…

— Arthur Fremantle

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all…

— Robert E. Lee

To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity…

— Jefferson Davis

“The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow Americans to…

— Mitch Landrieu

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

— Salmon P. Chase

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

— Angelina Grimke

“We’re not part of the Confederacy anymore, either.  There’s as many crooks trying to run the south as there are in the north.  You…

— Keith R. Baker