“Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child - every solitary one was a Democrat.” MenHumansChildrenWarGovernmentWantedMotherHeavenLibertyHistoryWillingHolyShotsSlaveryUnionsDemocratSoldierEvery ManNakedBlockCivil WarLabourYellowFlagsSolitaryCorpsesAltarsFeverAmerican Civil WarLashesAuctionsYellow FeverBloodhounds Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings, horrible; lynching death, all of that, horrible. But the living life of a parent who, A, has no control over what happens to your children, none. They don't belong to you. You may not even nurse them. They may be shipped off somewhere, as in "Beloved" the mother was, to be nursed by somebody who was not able to work in the fields and was a wet nurse.” MayChildrenCountryHappensAbleMotherParentFieldsLaborOur ChildrenSlaveryHorribleLive LifeBelovedYour ChildrenBreakupNurseWetMonstrousLynching Author:Toni Morrison
“Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.” WholeMotherFatherIgnoranceSlaverySlaveOppressionMentalityTwinsWhole FamilyIgnorance And Fear Author:Ameen Rihani
“As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.” GivingIdeasSeemsFormMotherChoicesSonGrewGrew UpSlaverySalvationFeministCompulsionGrind Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.” WritingMotherSpeakBlackWifeSlaveryWho I AmAfrican AmericanLegacyEtcBlack Women Author:Michelle Singletary
“Even when I became cognizant of this societal problem in this country, I asked my father and my mother if they knew anything that had been passed on to them, about slavery, and my father was very reticent about it. He often said, "No, I don't know anything about it, and it was bad, it was awful and it's over and we want to get on with our lives."” IfsKnowsWantSaidCountryProblemMotherFatherOur LivesSlaveryAwfulCognizant Author:David C. Driskell
“The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.” ThinkingShouldMotherAsksFatherHeavenWishJusticeSupportFireIgnoranceFoolReturnDiversitySocial JusticeSlaveryGratefulMiserySakeThanksThroatBrandingBe GratefulGangOur FatherUngratefulCramming Author:David Walker
“O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.” ChildrenArtDoneMotherGivenNatureBecomingBenefitsSlaveryRewardsMotherhoodPunishmentReceivingRuthlessStepmothers Book:Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd Source: Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd
“The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.” CountryEarthMotherCommonStepsPrinciplesSawsHeardIndependenceInstitutionsSlaveryLipsOppressionHypocrisyJustifySooner Or LaterDeclarationDestinedUnnaturalDeclaration Of IndependenceReproachSyllablesInconsistencyInsincerityMother CountryStep Mother Author:John Quincy Adams
“And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?” MenWellsLooksChildrenMotherJesusWomenGriefHeardArmsBearsSlaveryAfrican AmericanBlack PeopleCriedStrong WomenLook At MeBlack WomenBlack HistoryThirteenLashesBarnsWomen StrengthPloughingWhiplashMud Puddles Author:Sojourner Truth
“And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?” ChildrenMotherJesusGriefHeardSlaveryCriedThirteenMud Puddles Author:Sojourner Truth
“If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?” IfsChildrenLittlesMotherMouthsSlaveryGuiltSlaveHearingGuiltyInactionRobbingAbolitionistGuilty ConscienceNot GuiltySuffragists Author:Lucy Stone
“Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not a word was said in favor of liberty. Not the slightest intimation that a human being was justly entitled to the product of his own labor. Not a word about the cruelty of masters who would destroy even the babes of slave mothers. It seems to me wonderful that this God did not tell the king of Egypt that no nation could enslave another, without also enslaving itself; that it was impossible to put a chain around the limbs of a slave, without putting manacles upon the brain of the master. Why did he not tell him that a nation founded upon slavery could not stand? Instead of declaring these things, instead of appealing to justice, to mercy and to liberty, he resorted to feats of jugglery. Suppose we wished to make a treaty with a barbarous nation, and the president should employ a sleight-of-hand performer as envoy extraordinary, and instruct him, that when he came into the presence of the savage monarch, he should cast down an umbrella or a walking stick, which would change into a lizard or a turtle; what would we think? Would we not regard such a performance as beneath the dignity even of a president? And what would be our feelings if the savage king sent for his sorcerers and had them perform the same feat? If such things would appear puerile and foolish in the president of a great republic, what shall be said when they were resorted to by the creator of all worlds? How small, how contemptible such a God appears!” GodFeelingsMotherPresidentJusticeBrainLibertyMagicBibleLaborDignityMercySlaverySlaveFoolishCrueltyGreatRepublicEgyptWickednessMosesEntitlementKingPerformanceJehovahSmallYahwehThe BibleExodusSavageChainAaronLizardTurtleMonarchContemptibleSorcerersManaclesPuerileJugglery Book:Some Mistakes of Moses Source: Some Mistakes of Moses