Herman Melville Quotes About Slavery

Quotes about: Slavery

• When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!

  Herman Melville

  Life, Country, Thinking

  1851 Captain Ahab. Moby Dick, ch.132.

• Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

  Herman Melville

  Evil, Humanity, Atheism

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.268

• When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

  Herman Melville

  Men, Slavery, Born

  Herman Melville (1963). “Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver”

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