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I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back. Elijah Parish Lovejoy

God Blessing Will Back Never Go Opposition Eternal Sworn Slavery

Tammany Hall and slavery usually found 'The Herald' on their side. Elmer Davis

Side Hall Found Slavery

The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, 'Gladiator' suggests what would happen if someone made a movie of the imminent extreme-football league and shot it as if it were a Chanel commercial. Elvis Mitchell

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Slavery and freedom cannot exist together. Ernestine Rose

Freedom Together Exist Cannot Slavery

Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba. Fidel Castro

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Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. Frank Herbert

Freedom Wealth Tool Way Pursuit Slavery

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. Franz Kafka

Tyranny Parents Born Educational Methods Selfishness Slavery Two

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery. George Segal

Day Legal Animals Live Week Form Farming Slavery

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be. Gerrit Smith

You Judge Will Tell Must Continue May Us Slavery

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning. Gerrit Smith

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it. Gerrit Smith

Suits Sometimes Nothing State Claim Concern North Therefore Slavery

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it. Gerrit Smith

Our Concern However Any Theory Slavery

America is exceptional, it is asserted, because, with the exception of the abolition of slavery, it has been able to extend the promise of liberal reform mostly peacefully, through its democratic institutions. Greg Grandin

Liberal Has-Been Promise Able Abolition Exception Through Exceptional Institutions Democratic Mostly Because Been Reform America Asserted Peacefully Extend Slavery

Even before the expansion of slave labor in the South and into the West, slavery was already an important source of northern profit, as was the already exploding slave trade in the Caribbean and South America. Banks capitalized the slave trade, and insurance companies underwrote it. Greg Grandin

Starting in the early 1800s, Southerners in the United States began to defend slavery as their 'peculiar institution,' and northerners didn't mind, since the phrase suggested that chattel bondage was quarantined from the rest of the nation: that it was, or soon would be, a relic of its past and would not define its future. Greg Grandin

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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening. Hari Kunzru

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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. Harriet Ann Jacobs

You Yourself Impossible Will Immortal See Seem Concealment Call Souls Trader Go Hear Southern Human Want Human Beings Then Convinced Plantation Fully Beings Among Things Slavery

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. Henry Charles Carey

Freedom World Seen Country Control Every System Gigantic Disappears Over Most Obtain Gradually Which England Therefore Slavery British

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. Henry Charles Carey

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America. Herman Cain

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. I. F. Stone

Truth Lie Every Emancipation Easily Seeds New Becomes Slavery

Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage. Isaac Hayes

Guys Deliver Lord Praises Them Sang Bondage Slavery

Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but it is contrary to the whole tenor of Christianity; and a system which lowers man as an intellectual and responsible being is no less morally than politically wrong. Isabella Bird

Day Man Christianity Apprenticeship Our Though System Responsible Morally More Tenor Wrong Mosaic Rendered Permitted Intellectual Contrary Than Politically Being Which Little Less Whole Slavery

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. Jack Kingston

Nature Marriage People Harmony Systems Laws Segregation Perfect Brutally Institution Were Oppress Fits Whereas Thereby Designed Violated Slavery

Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion. Jamaica Kincaid

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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want. James Fenimore Cooper

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