Quotes about slavery
52 quotes from 23 people
Slavery in this Country I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century…
John Adams1735–1826Letter to Thomas Jefferson (3 February 1821), as quoted in Joseph J. Ellis, Passionate Sage (New York: Norton, 1993), p. 138- John Adams1735–1826Letter to Robert J. Evans (1819)
- John Adams1735–1826Letter to William Tudor, Jr., 20 November 1819. Partially quoted in Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (2000) by Joseph J. Ellis, p. 240
I shudder when I think of the calamities which slavery is likely to produce in this country.
John Adams1735–1826Letter to Louisa Catherine Adams (13 January 1820)- John Adams1735–1826Letter to Robert J. Evans (8 June 1819)
John Quincy Adams1767–1848Journal of John Quincy Adams (11 December 1838)
Frederick Douglass1817–1895Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C. (22 October 1883).Where there is seeming contentment with slavery, there is certain treachery to freedom.
Frederick Douglass1817–1895The Heroic Slave (1853), Madison Washington- Frederick Douglass1817–1895The Heroic Slave (1853), Madison Washington
- Frederick Douglass1817–1895Our Composite Nationality (1869)
I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness.
- Frederick Douglass1817–1895Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), Chapter VIIIn context
