"My sufferings I can compare to nothing else……" — Solomon Northup
"My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!"
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Solomon Northup
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16 Quotes by Solomon Northup
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They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his…
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I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery;
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Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!
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What difference is there in the color of the soul?
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Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.
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It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of…
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It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public,
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Is everything right because the law allows it?
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There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom.…
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I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as…
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There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of…
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Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern…
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