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Slavery Quotes
On bondage, freedom, and an unfinished history.
These lines address slavery mainly through history: a hope for compromise before change occurred, ongoing modern efforts to identify and stop forced labor, and reflections on how one person's freedom has often depended on someone else's bondage. See History quotes for related context.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
- Death
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Death is better than slavery.
- May
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Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.
- Legal
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A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
- Abolition
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America is exceptional, it is asserted, because, with the exception of the abolition of slavery, it has been able to extend the promise of liberal reform mostly peacefully, through its democratic institutions.
- Capitalism
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The argument that capitalism was dependent on slavery is, of course, not new. In 1944, Eric Williams, in 'Capitalism and Slavery,' made the case.
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Even before the expansion of slave labor in the South and into the West, slavery was already an important source of northern profit, as was the already exploding slave trade in the Caribbean and South America. Banks capitalized the slave trade, and insurance companies underwrote it.
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Just as much as the United States mattered to cotton, cotton mattered to the United States. Cotton reinvigorated slavery, established the young nation's place in the global economy, and eventually helped create the political and economic conflicts that resulted in civil war.
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I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
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The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
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We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
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There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
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Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.
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- Nov 07, 2020