Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery

The connection to the homeland was deliberately broken by slavery.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery

The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.