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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
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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."
"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
"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."
"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."
"It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union."
"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
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"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."
"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."
"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."
"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."
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