Slavery

Examples

• Talk of the _abuses_ of slavery! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The cotton-gin probably had much to do with the justification of slavery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Lord Mansfield declared that slavery was a condition unknown to English law, an odious condition, and Somersett walked out of the court a free man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Well, I do; but it is a very pleasant kind of slavery. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Other writers, of a different stamp, with great learning and gravity, endeavoured to prove to the English people that slavery was _jure divino_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The deepest revolt implied in the term syndicalism is against the impersonal, driven quality of modern industry--against the destruction of that pride which alone distinguishes work from slavery. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In the matter of slavery; all nations had slaves; some treated them very cruelly, some with moderate cruelty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. Plato. The Republic.
• It was certainly the act of an insane man to attempt the invasion of the South, and the overthrow of slavery, with less than twenty men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Thus liberty, getting out of all order and reason, passes into the harshest and bitterest form of slavery. Plato. The Republic.
• The women, like his own wife, who had sewed by day and night, were saved their strength and vision, and the slavery of the clothing factories, notorious in those days, was inestimably lightened. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There was no labour slavery, no gang servitude. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is possible that the question of a conflict between races may come up in the future, as did that between freedom and slavery before. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I think Henrique, now, has a keener sense of the beauty of truth, from seeing lying and deception the universal badge of slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Edited by Alison