Slaves Quotes
Freedom is defined as much by what slavery denied as by what it took.
This page of slaves quotes reflects on bondage and the freedom fighters who resisted it, including the reminder that we can also become slaves to whatever we simply don't understand. See more in our Arms quotes.
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Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
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Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
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John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
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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.
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One line points out enslaved people once received food rations they called scraps from the table, a hard historical detail worth remembering. Continue with Been quotes.
