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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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"Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico."
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"Stardom can be a gilded slavery."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Slavery is malignantly aristocratic."
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"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
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"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
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"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
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"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."
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"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."
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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."
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"DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress."
Family
"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
"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."
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"I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away."
Family
"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
"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."
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"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."
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"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."
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