4 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Slavery

Samuel Johnson quotes on slavery

17. How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

71. Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

155. Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.

156. It must be agreed that in most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.