Dark Quote by Mary Virginia Terhune

Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark spot still dimmed its…

— James Forten

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

— Simon Bolivar

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful…

— Penny Mordaunt

It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

By day I was a slave; by night, I was a prince.

— Mu Xin

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

— John Adams

“Slavery is as old as civilization, and has been practiced all over the world. It was ubiquitous in antiquity, and is taken for granted…

— David Livingstone Smith

We are the slaves of slaves

— William Nicholson

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

— Voltaire

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

— Winston Churchill

“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper, worn finer…

— N.K. Jemisin