Answers Quote by William H. Seward

Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed…

— Lysander Spooner

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

— Abraham Lincoln

The Constitution...expressly recognizes the right to hold slaves as property in states where slavery exists. This, then, is not a question of general morality,…

— James Buchanan

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the…

— Jefferson Davis

Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other…

— Frederick Douglass

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the…

— William H. Seward

It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as…

— Lysander Spooner

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

— William H. Seward

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution,…

— Anonymous

“Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection. It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is…

— Frederick Douglass

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

— Robert Dale Owen