111 Metaphors for slaving

No gaudy slave to a fair one's brow Was the rose, or the ruby, or emerald now, But lighted with souls by the playful elves, The brilliants and blossoms seemed dancing themselves.

That the slaves are the most happy, moral and contented generally, and free from suffering of any kind, having, each full confidence, in his masters, skill means and disposition to provide well for him, knowing also at the same time that it is his interest to do it.

However, such, a supposition was heterodox; every slave must desire freedom; a slave who does not wish to be free is an impossibility.

Following the thousand details of the life of the people, we shall see the slave become serf, and the serf become peasant.

The slave who dances, unconscious of degradation on the auction-block, is at once the greatest stimulus and the bitterest discouragement of the antislavery reformer: so women, contented in ignominious dependence, restless even to insanity from the need of healthy employment and the perversion of their instincts, and confessedly looking to marriage for salvation, are at once a stimulus to exertion, and an obstacle in our way.

"When I paid the money, I felt constrained to testify that I could in no degree sanction the principle that man could hold property in man; that the slaves were our equals by creation, and for their salvation, equally with ours, did Christ leave the right hand of the Father to suffer on the cross.

But, in proportion as labour is performed by free hands, slave labour becomes less productive; and the slave is then a useless or an onerous possession, whom it is important to export to those Southern States where the same competition is not to be feared.

The youth kissed the ground, and beseeching pardon for his life, replied, "This slave is the daughter of your majesty's wazir; my father came under the royal anger on account of this very khwaja's rubies, and your majesty's orders were, that if in one year my father's words should not be verified, he should be put to death.

The slave-holder refuses to acknowledge that his slave is a member of the same body as himself; but he does not go unpunished: the degradation to which he has brought his slave degrades him, by throwing open to him.

The vast estates and large fortunes that once maintained, and were maintained by, the serfdom of hundreds of negroes, have dwindled in size and sunk in value, till the slaves have become so heavy a burthen on the resources of the exhausted soil and impoverished owners of it, that they are made themselves objects of traffic in order to ward off the ruin that their increase would otherwise entail.

Truly it was wise in the slaveholders of the South to declare their slaves to be "chattels personal;" for before they could be robbed of wages, wives, children, and friends, it was absolutely necessary to deny they were human beings.

No nation had ever before conceived the notion that to make a man a slave was a crime.

He decided that the returned slaves and Ngatiawa fugitives were the true owners of the land.

Deprived thus of helpful advice and instruction, the slaves became the object of pity not only to abolitionists of the North but also to some southerners.

With them, the son is the slave of the fatherthe brother is a rival.

CHAPTER XV PLANTATION LABOR WHILE produced only in America, the plantation slave was a product of old-world forces.

His slaves were always better fed, better clad, and had greater privileges than any I knew in the Old Dominion; and of course, the patrol had long had an eye on them, anxious to flog some of "those pampered niggers, who were spoiled by the indulgence of a weak, inefficient, but well-meaning owner.

In America, a slave is a standing monument of the tyranny and inconsistency of human governments.

Freemen white or black might be convenient as auxiliaries, and were indeed employed in many instances whether on annual contract as blacksmiths and the like or temporarily as emergency helpers in the fields; but negro slaves were the standard composition of the gangs.

He deplored the fact that the slaves who were the subjects of such instruction became the victims of still greater cruelty, while the missionaries who endeavored to enlighten them were neglected and even persecuted by the masters.

That the slaves are the most happy, moral and contented generally, and free from suffering of any kind, having, each full confidence, in his masters, skill means and disposition to provide well for him, knowing also at the same time that it is his interest to do it.

This official felt that Monday, the slave of Mr. Gill, was the most daring conspirator.

Instead of this, they should be, as emancipated slaves often have been, models of enterprise, fidelity, activity, and usefulnessespecially as their masters were "worthy of their confidence and love," their helpers in this well-doing.

Slaves were the persons intended.

Toiling or resting, the Southern slaves were singers.

111 Metaphors for  slaving