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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
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"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
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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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"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
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"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
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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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"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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"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."
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"Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."
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"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."
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"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
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"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."
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"I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away."
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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
"Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name."
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
"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."
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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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"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."
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