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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.


Oliver Goldsmith


#between #commerce #disinterested #equals #friendship

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


#bound #class #everywhere #laborers #miserable

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


Albert Bushnell Hart


#been #colonial #cut #had #importation

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


Jim Hightower


#had #issue #jobs #just #slaves

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


#appear #cannot #consideration #done #far

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.


Vernon Howard


#understand #whatever

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


Stephen Ambrose


#created #did #equal #jefferson #owned

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


Ambrose Bierce


#community #condition #consisting #making #master

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.


James Bovard


#being #burden #change #con #important

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.


David Garrick


#freemen #slaves #worst