#slaves

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#blood #confederacy #fight #give #large

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#ashamed #been #being #grandparents #having

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. ↗

— David Garrick

#freemen #slaves #worst

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#assistant #i #lot #make #me

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. ↗

— George Mason

#disgraceful #itself #mankind #slaves #states

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. ↗

— George Mason

#labor #performed #poor #slaves

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#freedom #her #mockery #over #slaves

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. ↗

— Huey Newton

#given #moment #people #slavery #slaves

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'. ↗

— Link Wray

#music #pain #slaves #soul #soul music

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#demonstration #does #estate #gracious #handed