#slaves

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#economically #feel #female #force #had

Fear is the passion of slaves. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#passion #slaves

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#anything #assert #be different #commonplace #creatures

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#carolinas #exports #great #population #quite

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves. ↗

— James Thomson

#never #rule #slaves #waves #will

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#freed #i #knew #more #only

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#could #freed #i #if i could #more

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#insurrection #john #john brown #murder #slaves

Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#did #education #elevation #emancipation #father

Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#compelled #employ #had #like #many