Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 27-28
Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 70
An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (12 February 1909) http://web.archive.org/20050322051431/www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.10/html/35.html
Context: Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Source: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), p. 324
Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Seven, "Honor and Degradation", p. 168
Source: Writings, Politics of Guilt and Pity (1978), p. 25
“Partial freedom seems to me the most invidious form of slavery.”
As quoted in "Is the Party Over?" https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/is-the-party-over (2017), by Daniel Ritchie, National Affairs
“[R]eligious commitment formed the backbone of much of the North's hostility to slavery.”
Source: 2010s, Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012), Chapter One
Lewis Carroll in the Theatre (1994)
Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 72
The Cornerstone Speech (1861)
Context: But not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other though last, not least. The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us; the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the 'rock upon which the old Union would split'. He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away.
