James Madison Slavery Quotations

The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.

If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of the expense is not a paramount consideration.

Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.