If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.