Edmund Ruffin Quotes

United States, Slaveholder
January 5, 1794 – June, 18, 1865.

Edmund Ruffin was a wealthy Virginia planter and slaveholder. In the last three decades before the Civil War, his pro-slavery writings received more attention than his agricultural work.

It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.

Edmund Ruffin
- Class
- Demand
- Supply
Banks and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

Edmund Ruffin
- Chains
- Riches
- Banks