William Eaton Quotes

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

Slavery was a faith-based institution. It was supported by the churches and their ministers who provided a religious and moral justification of the institution.

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

Our patriarchal scheme [Southern slavery] awakens the higher and finer feelings of our nature. It is not wanting in its enthusiasm and its poetry.

Slavery is the first form of Globalization in which America participated.

The end of slavery is the profit of the master …. The slave is doomed to toil, that others may reap the fruits.

African slaves, the substratum of our society is made of the material fitted by nature for it.

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

The first, and overarching, count in the new indictment is that slavery permitted one group of people to exercise unrestrained personal domination over another group of people.

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

…these poor men…who are bound, not only for all their lives, but for those of their children.

Equal justice to the South, it is said, requires us to consent to the extension of slavery to new countries [states]. That is to say, inasmuch as you do not object to my taking my hog to Nebraska, therefore I must not object to your taking your slave. Now, I admit this is perfectly logical, if there is no difference between hogs and negroes.

For half a century past, the African slave-trade began to awaken a spirit of remorse and sympathy in the breasts of men, and a conviction that the traffic was repugnant to the principles of Christian duty, and the maxims of justice and humanity

I protest against the fitness and truth of the usually received definitions and applications of "slave labor" and "free labor"--and, in contradiction thereto, maintain that, in proportion to the respective populations, there are many more slaves in England, and in very much more suffering and painful conditions, than in all the negro slaveholding States of this Confederation.

Increase of slaves in this colony is injurious to the poor and inconvenient

Twin relics of barbarism – polygamy and slavery.