slavery

The California Constitution banned slavery in 1850 but did not prohibit slaveowners from other parts of the country from bringing their human property into the Golden State.

Rather, human trafficking, like slavery in the past, is a way of demoralizing the conquered.

Calhoun supported state nullification of federal laws and gave a speech to Congress titled “Slavery as a Positive Good.”

And Daniel Webster, a great opponent of slavery, supported the vile Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act and all.

A foreigner such as Bartholdi viewed the abolition of slavery as Liberty achieved in the United States.

The Southerners had history, ethnicity, culture, slavery, religion, and a quasi-aristocratic honor society to hold them together.

I like its noble aims, its scorn and hate of priestcraft and Slavery.

Slavery, however mitigated and softened, can never be in harmony with the dignity of man.

Habeas Corpus and the safeguards of Freedom which you deplore are ravished by Slavery.

This once I have been deceived enough; I did hope, to my sorrow, that I had rescued my son from slavery.

Slavery, therefore, can find no sanction in the law of Moses.