Circumstances Quote by Thomas Clarkson

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

— John Sergeant Wise

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing…

— Maria Weston Chapman

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of thepeople who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them…

— Anonymous

This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. .…

— Christopher Hitchens

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters

— George Fitzhugh

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

— Thomas Huxley

“Modern society did not abolish slavery, but only regulated it.”

— Dario de Judicibus

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the…

— William Wilberforce

Quakers are terrific.

— Ian Mckellen

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

— Robert E. Lee