Abolition Quotes

“Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.”

“There is a higher law than the Constitution.”

“The time has come when we should put an end to this slavery. And to do that, we must amend the Constitution.”

“The cause of freedom is the cause of God.”

“So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the slave trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition.”