"In such a condition of affairs, the practical……" — John Sergeant Wise
"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous."
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24 Quotes by John Sergeant Wise
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My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in…
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As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.
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Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.
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THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
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However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters…
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John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
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Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far…
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In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards…
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In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished…
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And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be…
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The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the…
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This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and…
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More Abolitionist Quotes
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There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana,…
— Gamaliel Bailey
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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
— Abraham Lincoln
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As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic…
— Del LaGrace Volcano
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Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by…
— Susan Jacoby
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The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's…
— Unknown Author
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Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But,…
— Frederick Douglass
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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be…
— Henry McNeal Turner
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I…
— Gamaliel Bailey
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
— Susan B. Anthony
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Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which…
— Lerone Bennett, Jr.
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It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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