humanity-crushing

Updated: May 5, 2025

But, however great a good, abolitionists might deem the separation of the white and black races, and however deeply they might be impressed with the power of slavery to promote this separation, they nevertheless, dare not "do evil, that good may come:" they dare not seek to promote this separation, at the fearful expense of upholding, or in anywise, countenancing a humanity-crushing and God-defying system of oppression.

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4