Captive Servitude Quotes

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

This is about slavery.

We have never heard of slavery in any country, ancient or modern, Pagan, Mohammedan, or Christian, so terrible in its character, as the slavery which exists in these United States

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

It having come to the knowledge of the Commander in Chief of the District that certain persons have been and still are imprisoning and holding to service Indians against their will and without any legal contract for service. It is thereby ordered that all persons so holding or detaining Indians shall release them, and permit them to return to their own homes.

If slavery be a sin, and advertising and apprehending slaves with a view to restore them to their masters, is a direct violation of the divine law, and if the BUYING, SELLING, and holding a slave, FOR THE SAKE OF GAIN, is a heinous sin and scandal, then verily, THREE FOURTHS of all the Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians, in eleven States of this Union, are of the devil. They hold, if they do not buy and sell slaves, and (with few exceptions) they hesitate not to apprehend and restore runaway slaves, when in their power.

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.