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[England] a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in.
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A Christian! Going, gone! Who bids for God’s own image?–for His grace, Which that poor victim of the marketplace Hath in her suffering won?
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A crowd of shivering slaves of every nation, And age, and sex, were in the market rang’d; Each bevy with the merchant in his station: Poor creatures! their good looks were sadly chang’d; All save the blacks seem’d jaded with vexation, From friends, and home, and freedom far estrang’d. The negroes more philosophy display’d,– Used to it, no doubt, as eels are to be flay’d.
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A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
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A preslaughter concentration camp is called a ranch. Seldom there is seen a tree of cooling branch.
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A soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in.
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Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it by being a slave himself.
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And ne’er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
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Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves.
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Base is the slave that pays.
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But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.
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By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
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Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy.
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Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery! said I–still thou art a bitter draught.
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Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one’s condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.
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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]
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Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurp’d, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
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Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul, that moment they are free. [Lat., Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliae fines penetraverint eodem momento liberi sunt.]
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