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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

— Gamaliel Bailey

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.

— Gamaliel Bailey

There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders.

— Robert Toombs

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

— Ed Smith

The abolitionists were not like the rugged people out West, and they were not like John Brown, either. They were people who made speeches and did politics.

— James McBride

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

— Ava DuVernay

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.

— Thomas Clarkson

When we put $4 billion into the U.S. economy, they were OK with this. When we preserved jobs in Dearborn, or preserved jobs in Columbus, or preserved jobs in Pennsylvania, everyone was happy.

— Alexei Mordashov

Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.

— Robert Reich

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

— John Boehner

✗Opposing Perspectives

Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.

— Bill Dedman