Richmond Enquirer, 1856: "Democratic liberty exists solely because we have slaves . . . freedom is not possible without slavery."
who said that without laws there can be no freedom
Who said that "taxation is the road to slavery?"
This quote is often attributed to Ralph Ellison, an American author known for his novel "Invisible Man." The quote highlights the idea that perceptions of freedom and slavery can vary greatly depending on one's perspective and experiences.
The Missouri Compromise said that any land below Missouri is slavery land, and any land above that, is freedom.
Abraham Lincoln said this during his famous House Divided speech in 1858. He argued that the nation could not endure being half slave and half free, and that ultimately it would either have to abandon slavery or abandon the principles of freedom upon which it was founded.
The philosopher Plato is often credited with the phrase "Life without freedom is not worth living." This idea is also seen in the works of other philosophers and political thinkers who emphasize the importance of individual liberty and autonomy for a meaningful existence.
They said the cotton trade, America's biggest export, couldn't survive without it. They said blacks were better-off in America than they would be if they'd stayed in Africa. They said that blacks were simple, happy folk who didn't want responsibilities, and weren't fit for them anyway. They said that slavery was a perfect, God-given arrangement of master and man, and that the Almighty would end slavery when He saw fit.
it was a slave sueing for his freedom and lost. the aboltionist in north were shocked and it also said Congress can not ban slavery in teritorys
Lincoln said slavery was wrong and unjust.
Robert E. Lee
Dredd Scott. That was a slave who went with his master to the NW territory, where slavery is banned. He claimed he was free, the master, of course, said he wasn't. Look up how this turned out.
Patric Henry said give me freedom or give me death.