Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.
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John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden.
You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.
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.
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.
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