I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.
However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
If you feel like the beginning of your history is rooted in slavery, that really, I think, messes with your sense of self, your self-esteem, and your self-worth.
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
I think only now am I at the age where I've forgiven the past enough to say, 'You know what? Slavery was there. Let's talk about it in ways that will help us face tomorrow.
God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.