Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Born a slave, Harriet Tubman was determined not to remain one. She escaped from her owners in Maryland on the Underground Railroad in 1849 and then fearlessly returned thirteen times to help guide family members and others to freedom as the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.
There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
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.
John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.
A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.