slavery

• “What is sometimes not appreciated is the distinction that was drawn by governments between slavery and actual slave trading: for example, Britain prohibited the _trade_ as early as 1807, but did not abolish _slavery_ within the Empire until 1833; the United States prohibited the trade in 1808, but continued to practise slavery in her slave states until the Civil War.”

  Flash For Freedom

• “That the abolition of slavery is within the sphere of legislation, I argue, _secondly_, from the fact, that _slavery as a legal system, is the creature of legislation_.”

  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4

• “The leading object of the second section was the readjustment of the representation of the States in Congress, rendered necessary by the abolition of chattel slavery [_not of political slavery_], effected by the thirteenth amendment.”

  An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting

• “Again: the institution of slavery is only mentioned in the Constitution of the United States two or three times, and in neither of these cases does the word “slavery” or “negro race” occur; but covert language is used each time, and for a purpose full of significance.”

  Last Joint Debate, at Alton. Mr. Lincoln's Reply

• “As a proof of this, I need not do more than state the general fact, that slavery has existed under the droppings of the sanctuary of the south for the last two hundred years, and there has not been any war between the _religion_ and the _slavery_ of the south.”

  My Bondage and My Freedom

• “Texas remains an independent province, or is restored to its legitimate owners, and in either case slavery is abolished, she then becomes, from the very circumstance of her fertility and aptitude for white labour, not only the great _check to slavery_, but eventually the means of its”

  Diary in America, Series One

• “Over the can of grog, the English tar forgets all his hardships and his slavery -- yes, _slavery_; for where is there a greater slavery among white men, than that of impressed”

  A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself.

• “_slavery_; yes! of American slavery in the bosom of a Catholic Republic, where that system of robbery, violence, and wrong, had been legally abolished for twelve years.”

  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4

• “Good Samaritan, coming and looking at the bleeding victim of the highway robber, and passing on the other side; or, baser still, perverting the pages of the sacred volume to turn into a code of slavery the very word of God! Philosophers, like the Sophists of ancient Greece, pulverized by the sober sense of Socrates, elaborating theories of _moral slavery_ from the alembic of a sugar plantation, and vaporing about lofty sentiments and generous benevolence to be learnt from the hereditary bondage of man to man!”

  Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.

• “Both historic and contemporary sources reveal that the term 'slavery' and 'involuntary servitude' refer only to persons.”

  The Guardian: Whales not slaves because they are not persons, judge in SeaWorld case rules

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