"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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"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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"As he plods behind Cameron and Summer, he can't help but stare at Summer's exposed, glistening skin. His thoughts aren't depraved or even mildly in the splasher. In fact, he focuses on the marks of cruelty crisscrossing her back, stomach, and shoulders. He trudges along, drenched, feet swollen, constantly searching for even a hint of a breeze, all while being forced to stare at the alarming network of burns traversing Summer's delicate skin. This latticework of hate reveals a brutal truth-one he can scarcely comprehend. Yes, he's glimpsed and felt her scars before, but this is the first time he's really, truly seen the severity and extent of her life as a slave. With each step, he must digest the monstrosities of her past, leaving him utterly devastated."

Laura Kreitzer, American Author

Slavery, Cruelty, Suffering, Empathy

"Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

Slavery, Prejudice, Observation, Humanity

"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."

Samuel Hopkins, American Clergyman

Slavery, Word

"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."

John H. Reagan, American Politician

Slavery, Giving, Importance, Leaders, Mission

"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."

Helen Hunt Jackson, American Writer

Slavery, Blind, Circumstance, Connection, Majority

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"

Bob Marley, Jamaican Musician

Slavery,

"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."

Mary Harris Jones, American Activist

Slavery, Man

"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."

Helen Hunt Jackson, American Writer

Slavery, Trees

"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Slavery, Comfort, Privilege, Ignorance

"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Slavery, Knowledge, Ignorance, Power, Freedom

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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

"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."

Corruption

"Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name."

Family

"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

"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."

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"Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"

"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."

"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."

"Some of today's slaves sleep on king size beds."

"To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable."

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"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."

"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."

"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."

"The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear."

"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."

"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."

"Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name."

"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."

"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."

"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."