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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
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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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"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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"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
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"Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."
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"Slavery is malignantly aristocratic."
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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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"Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized."
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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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"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."
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"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."
God
"Death is better than slavery."
Death
"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."
Corruption
"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
"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
"But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import."
Life
"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."
Cruelty
"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."
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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."
Woman
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