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You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

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.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.