_The slaveholder is the soul of the whole system_. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)
We intend to show, as in the clear light of noonday, that it is the conduct of Mr. Sumner and other abolitionists, and not that of the slaveholder, which is rebuked by the life and writings of the great apostle. ❋ E. N. [Editor] Elliott (N/A)
The abolitionists have been labouring for the last fifteen years, in season and out of season, in the midst of obloquy and reproach, in the midst of mobs and various kinds of opposition, to establish the conviction that slave-holding is a sin, and that the slaveholder is a sinner, and ought to be treated as such. ❋ Unknown (1911)
For that reason he was called a slaveholder, and a fellow senator once openly accused him of shaping his course as a public man to accord with his private interests. ❋ William Garrott Brown (1890)
He looked at nearly everything in politics and society from what might be called the slaveholder's point of view, and suspected me, on the other hand, of disguising reprobation of the South and its institutions in any praise of the North or of France or England which I might utter. ❋ Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1866)
United States not only believed in slavery, but bought and sold women and babes in the name of Jesus Christ, this infidel, this wretch who is now burning in the flames of hell, lifted his voice against human slavery and said: "It is robbery, and a slaveholder is a thief; the whipper of women is a barbarian; the seller of a child is a savage." ❋ Robert Green Ingersoll (1866)
Resistance to the slaveholder is the same in kind which Washington made against British aggression and servitude. ❋ Eld. John W. Lewis (1852)
Cincinnati Black Blog: Keyes: Obama holds 'slaveholder's' view skip to main ❋ Nathaniel Livingston (2004)
a sympathy for "Southern institutions" because he believes that a slaveholder is a better man than himself. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)
"slaveholder" and "slave," whenever it may be advantageous to your side of the question to have them thus translated. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)
" He accused me of taking a 'slaveholder's position" in my defense of abortion rights and called me a -hard-core, academic Marxist" for my support of universal health care and other social programs-and then added for good measure that because I was not the descendant of slaves I was not really African American. ❋ Obama, Barack (2006)
One slaveholder advised a friend that slaves would not accept being “dealt harshly with—otherwise they will run off—and if once the habit of absconding is fixed, it is difficult to conquer it.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Both as an aspiring congressman and as an ambitious lawyer, Lincoln managed on occasion to keep silent on the slavery issue and even, when appropriately briefed, to act as counsel for a slaveholder. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Unless, of course, it was graded by a slaveholder. ❋ Eliot Schrefer (2012)
How many Republican candidates will salute at the next debate if someone asks, "Is everyone to the left of Rand Paul the moral equivalent of a slaveholder?" ❋ Michael Sigman (2011)
