Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
Death is better than slavery.
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.
If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.
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