I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.


Statement at the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention (July 1837), quoted in Thaddeus Stevens, Scourge of the South (1959) by Fawn M. Brodie, p. 63

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I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would...

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would...

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would...

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would...