slave-system

This extension of the slave-system to the north, the subject of Thoreau's “Slavery in Massachusetts” (1854), was on public view when an escaped slave named Anthony Burns was captured in Boston, tried by a Massachusetts court, and escorted by the Massachusetts militia and U.S. marines to the harbor, where he was taken back to slavery in Virginia.

Transcendentalism Goodman, Russell 2008

The conclusions which I have stated in the foregoing pages are derived from a careful comparison and study of facts which I have learned from eminent speakers and writers both in favour of and against the slave-system.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Over 250 years, many millions of Africans and African-descended people had been exploited in order to enrich their masters: the transatlantic slave-trade had been conducted and the slave-system sustained, with all its violence, in order to deliver profits to those who had money to invest in human chattel.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

Over 250 years, many millions of Africans and African-descended people had been exploited in order to enrich their masters: the transatlantic slave-trade had been conducted and the slave-system sustained, with all its violence, in order to deliver profits to those who had money to invest in human chattel.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

Over 250 years, many millions of Africans and African-descended people had been exploited in order to enrich their masters: the transatlantic slave-trade had been conducted and the slave-system sustained, with all its violence, in order to deliver profits to those who had money to invest in human chattel.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

Over 250 years, many millions of Africans and African-descended people had been exploited in order to enrich their masters: the transatlantic slave-trade had been conducted and the slave-system sustained, with all its violence, in order to deliver profits to those who had money to invest in human chattel.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

Over 250 years, many millions of Africans and African-descended people had been exploited in order to enrich their masters: the transatlantic slave-trade had been conducted and the slave-system sustained, with all its violence, in order to deliver profits to those who had money to invest in human chattel.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

No one can understand the effect of the unutterable meanness of the slave-system on the minds of those who, but for the strange obliquity which prevents them from feeling the degradation of not being gentlemen enough to pay for services rendered, would be equal in virtue to ourselves.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

For no Abolitionist ever branded the slave-system with words more fiery.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

Nor has the slave-system been any worse than it must be, in pushing us and them to the present pass.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various