Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.