In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. It is our part, by religion and reason joined, to counteract them all we can.

Are you a man? Then you should have an human heart. But have you indeed? What is your heart made of? Is there no such principle as Compassion there? Do you nev…

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

Torture was necessary to maintain slavery. It was integral to slavery. You cannot have slavery without some torture or the threat of torture; and you cannot ha…

Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.