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

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

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

The connection to the homeland was deliberately broken by slavery.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.