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  • From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

    Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365
  • 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.

    Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.130, Hackett Publishing
  • Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.

    Book   Men   Animal  
    James A. Haught (1990). “Holy horrors: an illustrated history of religious murder and madness”
  • The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back to the pro-slavery side of the war.

    War   Mean   People  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'

  • The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.

    "Dan Savage Under Fire After Challenging Bible Talk" by Michelle Garcia, www.advocate.com. April 29, 2012.
  • ...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If these people were honest, they would have to admit that the Bible is also pro - slavery and anti - women.

    Gay   People   Catholic  
  • Old Testament, is really one of the most wickedest books you'll ever come across. God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby Knight and Suge Knight. He's got these anger issues that you can't believe. He's like John McCain if McCain could fart hail. He's pro-slavery, he's pro-polygamy, he's homophobic, he'll kill you for masturbating.

    Book   Believe   Insecure  
    Source: movieweb.com
  • The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!

    Party   Unseen   Degrees  
    "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity", www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.
  • Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

    Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859
  • Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.

    What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852
  • For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

    The Drapier's Letters no. 4 (1724)
  • In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write.

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