"It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read."
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"Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave."
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"Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers."
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"Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves."
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"Keep a secret, it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master."
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"Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves."
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"Master-morality and Slave-morality."
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"Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it."
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"In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just."
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"Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality."
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"La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne."
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"I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!"
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"I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be let it end."
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"The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring."
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