#slaves

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages. ↗

— Jim Hightower

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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand. ↗

— Vernon Howard

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Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

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Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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