We were very secret in these operations; for our unhappy country having then recently fallen under the subjection of the British nation, we apprehended that if we divulged our arcanum, they would not only fly away with all our treasures, whether found in palace or pagoda, but also carry off the inhabitants, to make them slaves in their colonies, as their government had not then abolished the African slave trade.

The Missourians, mostly, were pro-slavery men, and held enthusiastic meetings at which they expressed their desire that Kansas should be a slave state and did not hesitate to declare their determination to make it so.

Moreover, with all his fulness of diction, Burke could cleave to the heart of an idea in a few words, as "Freedom is to them [the southern slave-holders] not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege."

In spite of the opposition of slave owners, and without guide or interpreter, he reached the Albert Nyanza; and when, after many perils, he got safely back to Northern Egypt, his fame as an explorer was fully established.

In Carthage agriculture was for a time largely carried on by slave-labor.

That great slave trader Suleiman, who had given Sir Samuel Baker so much trouble, was there at the head of 6000 men.

He proposed, therefore, that Tom should employ it in the black traffic; that is to say, that he should fit out a slave-ship.

That is why it became a slave market.

It however left the slave population then existing in a state of bondage, and for this necessary compromise the nation seventy-five years later was to pay dearly by one of the most destructive civil wars in the annals of mankind.

Mahomet retained for himself his wife and the slave woman, and gave to his companion the two other women.

Then quantities of aloes-wood, camphor, and pistachio-nuts; and lastly, a beautiful slave-girl, whose robes glittered with precious stones.

Will not the courts in England admit such proof as is authorized by our slave laws?""I apprehend not, (answered a second,) unless we can show that our slave laws (according to the limitations of the charter) are not repugnant to the laws of England.

Without being an abolitionist, he dreaded the extension of the slave-power; yet as he wished to be President he was afraid of losing votes, and did not wish to alienate either the North or the South.

" On March 4th they reached the country of the Chiboques, a tribe in constant contact with the slave-dealers.

Everywhere Massachusetts was honored; everywhere I met the horror of the honest Englishman at the slave system; but anything like a discriminating knowledge of our public men I could not meet.

Author meets with Alexander Falconbridge; visits ill-treated and disabled seamen; takes a mate out of one of the slave-vessels, and puts another in prison for murder.

You know in slave times, sometimes when a master would git too bad, the niggers would kill himtote him off out in the woods somewheres and git rid of him.

Hale, of the Senate, whilst he was willing to protect the abolitionist, expressed himself willing to relax the laws and weaken the protection which is given to the slave property in this district!

It was through obligation, through having slave-drivers stand over them, that these wretched folk built the pyramids.

The bad government kills out the good government as surely as slave-labour destroys free-labour, or as a debased currency drives out a sound currency.

The slave merchants, among whom a quantity of European goods is previously divided, travel into the heart of the country to this amazing distance.

By the slave code it was unlawful for a slave to go beyond the limits of his own neighborhood without the written permission of his master.

In the case of Ammon, it was brutal cruelty to captive women; but in the cases of Gaza, of Tyre, and of Edom, it was slave-making and slave-trading invasions of Palestine.

The bordering Creeks, who by long slave-holding had sunk to the level of the whites around them, longed to seize on these valuable neighbors, and, indeed, they claimed rights of property in them as fugitives in fact from themselves.

The members of my family [she meant the twins and slave children and other unwanted children she had adopted] shall help in teaching the beginners in the schools.