- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, which will have the effect of allaying violent passions on both sides.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
- Consideration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
- Free State
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
- Minority
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- Nov 07, 2020
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery was our nation's original sin.
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- Nov 07, 2020