In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.
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 need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.