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“The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.”

Growing Slavery Sentiments Crops Wrecks Fungi

Book:Their Wedding Journey

Source: Their Wedding Journey

“Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-holding country is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants than St. Louis.”

Country States Growing Slavery Slave Sugar Rice Cotton Missouri Barbarity

Book:The Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave

Source: The Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave

“... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!”

Thinking Art Hands Growing Influence Conscience Slavery Edges Cease Accustomed Hateful Blunt

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a very, very small section in the history books. It's not something they really touch on directly with American curriculums.”

Book Kids America Remember Bits Class Growing Up Focus Growing Slavery Sections Curriculum History Books History Class

Author:Aldis Hodge

“Mr. President, the cause of this great discontent in the country, the cause of the evils which we now suffer and which we now fear, originates chiefly from questions growing out of the respective rights of the different States and the unfortunate subject of slavery.”

Different War Country States Suffering Evil Causes President Growing Rights Subjects Slavery Civil War Unfortunate Discontent

Author:John J. Crittenden

“But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is any other cause of complaint which has been influential in any quarter, to bring about the crisis which is now upon us; if any State or any people have made the troubles growing out of this question, a pretext for agitation instead of a cause of honest complaint, Virginia can have no sympathy whatever, in any such feeling, in any such policy, in any such attempt. It is the slavery question. Is it not so?”

People Ifs Has Beens Made War States Feelings Causes Growing Trouble Honest Policy Crisis Slavery Civil War Quarters Complaints Influential Virginia Pretext Agitation No Sympathy

Author:John Brown Baldwin

“This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.”

People Business Opinion Saws Growing Slavery Relieved

Book:End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier

Source: End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier

“I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.”

Thinking Humanity Born Animal Growing Regard Slavery Equality Tendencies Animal Rights Disgusting

Author:Victor Gollancz