Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.
Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them homes-away-from-home. But there can be dark corners in familiar places.
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.
I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.
While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.