![]() ![]() ![]() I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.Ībolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is a sin…Įlijah Parrish Lovejoy, abolitionist who was murdered by pro-slavery mob Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, former slave Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Sojourner Truth, abolitionist, former slaveĮvery great dream begins with a dreamer. Richard Allen, abolitionist, former slave, founder of the Bethel African Methodist Church (AME) Burden not your children or country with them. If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves. James Forten, abolitionist, free African American It seems incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.įrederick Douglass, abolitionist, former slave If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ![]() John Rankin, 1823, abolitionist, published in The Castigator, a local newspaper in Ripley, Ohio I sincerely pity the man who tinges his hand in the unhallowed thing that is fraught with the tears, and sweat, and groans, and blood of hapless millions of innocent, unoffending people… I consider involuntary slavery a never-failing fountain of the grossest immorality, and one of the deepest sources of human misery it hangs like the mantle of night over our republic, and shrouds its rising glories. is the root of almost all the troubles of the present and the fears for the future.įormer President John Quincy Adams to Alexis de TocquevilleĪmericans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom… The subjection of individuals will increase among democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportions as their ignorance.Īlexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America Secretary of State, 1820, privately commenting on Missouri Compromise of 1819 If the Union must be dissolved, slavery is precisely the question upon which it ought to break. John Jay, founding father, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, abolitionist, in a letter to R. To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused. The honor of the States as well as justice and humanity, in my opinion, loudly call upon them to emancipate these unhappy people. It is much to be wished that slavery may be abolished. …Neither my tongue, nor my pen, nor purse shall be wanting to promote the abolition of what to me appears so inconsistent with humanity and Christianity. ![]() Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold a bill of Rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?Īlexander Hamilton, founding father, first Secretary of the Treasury, abolitionistįreedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.īenjamin Franklin, founding father, abolitionist All of the vices which are charged upon the negroes in the southern colonies and West Indies… are the genuine offspring of slavery, and serve as an argument to prove they were not intended by Providence for it. Slavery is so foreign to the human mind, that the moral faculties, as well as those of the understanding are debased, and rendered torpid by it. John Adams, founding father, third President of the United States It being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law. Negro slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of slavery into the Missouri Territories. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.ĭeclaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, drafted by Thomas Jefferson Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them, and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant who has escaped from his master unto thee. ![]()
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