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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Essence, Abuse, Slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.310, Harriet Beecher Stowe

The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Compassion, Hands, Abuse
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly”, p.6

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Punishment, Abuse, Double Standard
Uncle Tom's Cabin ch. 20 (1852)

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