"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."

Slavery, Want, Will

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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."

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Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized."

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"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."

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Mary Harris Jones, American Activist

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"Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico."

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"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."

Life

"Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word."

Power

"When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women."

Woman

"For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood."

Family

"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."

God

"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."

Slavery

"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."

Nature

"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."

Corruption

"I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away."

Family

"There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious."

Money