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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth.

I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.