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"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."
"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."
"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
"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."
"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."
Explore more quotes by David Wilmot
"Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil."
"The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race."
"Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico."
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