Quotes by Solomon Northup - Page 1

Is everything right because the law allows it?
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What difference is there in the color of the soul?
Solomon Northup / Author
Color
Differences
Soul
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My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.
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Scar
Thick
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My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!
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Agony
Burning
Suffering
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Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!
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Men
Dog
Reason
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Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.
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Life Is
Struggle
Worms
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Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.
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Men
Evil
Temptation
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It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.
Solomon Northup / Author
Accounts
Fortune
Has Beens
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I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.
Solomon Northup / Author
Justice
Law
Principles
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I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
Solomon Northup / Author
My Own
Observation
Slavery
Speak
Came
Experienced
Far
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There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.
Solomon Northup / Author
Appearance
Cotton
Expanse
Eye
Immaculate
Light
Pleasant
Purity
Snow
Wide
More
Bloom
Few
Presents
Sights
Than
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Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey.
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Examination
Horse
Importance
Jockeys
Particular
Slave
Warranty
Jockey
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There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.
Solomon Northup / Author
Eye
Light
Sight
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There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.
Solomon Northup / Author
Death
Body
Contemplation
Happy Life
Hours
Pleasant
Sorrow
Tired
Unhappy
Worn
Earthly
Grave
Resting
Resting Place
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Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed, clothed, whipped and protected by his master, is happier than the free colored citizen of the North. To that conclusion I have never since arrived.
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Citizens
Long
Southern
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It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.
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Association
Childhood
Years
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They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.
Solomon Northup / Author
Fear
Ignorant
Prayer
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At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid, he remembers Him not, and is ready to defy Him; but place him in the midst of dangers, cut him off from human aid, let the grave open before him, then it is, in the time of his tribulation, that the scoffer and unbelieving man turns to God for help, feeling there is no other hope, or refuge, or safety, save in his protecting arm.
Solomon Northup / Author
Men
Cutting
Heart
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