SLAVES in Classic Quotes

1  Slaves were neither miserable nor unfortunate.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII

2  But the planters' ladies and the planters' slaves could not overlook the fact that he was not born a gentleman, even if their men folks could.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

3  Their family had more money, more horses, more slaves than any one else in the County, but the boys had less grammar than most of their poor Cracker neighbors.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

4  It was delicate embroidery if company were present, but at other times her hands were occupied with Gerald's ruffled shirts, the girls' dresses or garments for the slaves.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

5  His own social status was assured because the Tarletons owned a hundred negroes and, like all slaves of large planters, he looked down on small farmers whose slaves were few.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

6  She had on her bonnet, shawl and mittens, and behind her was Mammy, her face like a thundercloud, holding in her hand the black leather bag in which Ellen O'Hara always carried the bandages and medicines she used in doctoring the slaves.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II