If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.
Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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.
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
There is no slavery but ignorance.