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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
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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."
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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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"Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico."
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"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
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"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."
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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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"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
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"The master doesn't need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a pen, but the pressing call of necessity will reestablish it."
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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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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
Slavery
"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
"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."
Time
"I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away."
Family
"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
"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."
Control
"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
"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."
Corruption
"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
"Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows."
Life
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