The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.
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.
I remember, growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a very, very small section in the history books. It's not something they really touch on directly with American curriculums.
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
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.
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.