Samuel Johnson Quotes on Slavery
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
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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.