“What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it.” HumansLongSaidGovernmentHuman BeingsSupportIssuesLandFoolInvolvedSlaveryBlindUnionsGods WillCursePreservationEnslavementFeudsSlaveholders Author:William Lloyd Garrison
“Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set of laws for governing an empire, prescribed death for anyone who harbored a fugitive or otherwise helped a slave to escape. The relationship between the law and bondage goes back even farther: Indeed, the oldest extant legal documents don't concern the sale of land, houses, or even animals, but slaves.” KnowsFirstsStatesFormLawHouseNationsAnimalLandConcernSlaverySlaveCodeEmpiresDocumentsBondageGovernanceGoverningFugitive Book:The Culture of Make Believe Source: The Culture of Make Believe
“The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.” WarNationsStruggleLandSlaveryCivil WarTyrantsPettyLand Of The FreePetty Tyrants Author:Angelina Grimke
“As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities, so capitalism retained the essential usurpations of feudalism, though professing to guard personal freedom, and to observe equity between the owner and the occupier of the land, the employer and the employed.” CommunityPracticeLandEssentialsElementsCapitalismTraditionSlaveryOwnersCustomsPrimitiveEmployedEquityEmployersPersonal FreedomFeudalismUsurpationFeudal System Author:Joshua K. Ingalls
“A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said, - and they weren't being hypocritical - they said slavery is the foundation of freedom because if you own slaves, you are freer yourself.” IfsMenSaidWholeLife IsLandFoundationSlaverySlaveWhole LifeThey SaidWagesHypocriticalSoutherner Author:Eric Foner
“One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.” MenFeelsHumansMomentsHomeCareEffortJourneyLandInspireHabitTravelWeightSlaveryWanderAround The WorldHuman LifeRoutineTime TravelTraveledFunny TravelShakingTravellerDepartureCloaksGreat TravelInspiring TravelTravel AdventureAdventure And TravelFettersInspirational AdventureAdventure And LifeTravel Journey Author:Richard Burton
“Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.” MenAmericaDiesLibertyEnemyMillionsLandSonPromiseThousandTenFellowsSlaveryOppressionWitnessResolutionHostOfferingWretchedFellow ManHostilityVowImposingDescendantsGrievanceShrinesComplexionExtremityLive Free Author:St. George Tucker
“You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land. You'll essentially have to introduce neo-feudalism. You'll have to roll the clock of history back a thousand years, and reduce the European population to debt slavery. It's as simple a solution as the Eurozone has imposed on Greece. And it's a solution that the leaders and the banks are urging for responsible economists to promote for the population at large.” YearsGovernmentSimpleLeaderLandThousandSolutionsResponsibleSlaverySellsPopulationDebtClockIntroducingThousand YearsEconomistDomainGreeceRailroadsFeudalismEurozonePublic DomainPublic Lands Author:Michael Hudson
“How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was separated from his land, his culture, his God, his language!” YearsAmericaCultureThreeLanguageNationsLandHundredSlaveryChainsMules Author:Malcolm X