top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Slavery quotes
"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."
"In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation."
"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
"There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families."
"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
Explore more quotes by Helen Hunt Jackson
"If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful."
"There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families."
"On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead."
"As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it."
"But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood."
bottom of page