Chippenhook was the home of Judge Theophilus Harrington, known for his trenchant reply to an irate slave-owner in a runaway slave ...case. Judge Harrington declared that the owner's claim to the slave was defective. The owner indignantly demanded to know what was lacking in his legally sound claim. The Judge exploded, 'A bill of sale, sir, from God Almighty!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was high and mighty. But the kindest creature to his slaves--and the unfortunate results of his bad ways were not sold, had not... to jump over ice blocks. They were kept in full view and provided for handsomely in his will. His wife and daughters in the might of their purity and innocence are supposed never to dream of what is as plain before their eyes as the sunlight, and they play their parts of unsuspecting angels to the letter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his slave, Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the town and bring i...n the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs--a dog exercising a somewhat sim...ilar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, th...e gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as s...laves and degraded them as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark s...ides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »