“ The mythology serves purposes darker than sentiment, nothing more so than the currently popular, and arrantly nonsensical, assertion that Lee freed his inherited slaves in 1862 before the war was over… William C. Davis
“ Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiri… Aberjhani
“ Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after the American Revolution that he could make 257 dollars on every (black slave) in a year, and spend… Howard Zinn
“ The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter. Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other? Alexander Hamilton
“ They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing contained, and Lincoln became at once what he would remain for them, the man who freed the… Shelby Foote
“ Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time. Jonathan R. Miller
“ To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte. Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel… Michio Kaku
“ They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city. Mitch Landrieu
“ In his book The African Slave Trade, Basil Davidson contrasts law and in the Congo in the early 16th century with law in Portugal and England. In those European countries, where the idea of private pr… Howard Zinn
“ Where was the lecture on how slavery alone catapulted the whole country from agriculture into the industrial age in two decades? White folks' hatred, their violence, was the gasoline that kept the pro… Toni Morrison
“ Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday. Margaret Mitchell
“ In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery. Rachel Held Evans
“ Heroes deal out vengeance, wiping out insults, and in an existential sense denying their own death. In twentieth-century camps, however, Todorov found, some people instead found transcendence by displ… Edward E. Baptist
“ Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind. Yaa Gyasi
“ There are people who think they can dance out of slavery. “I’m going to do escapist drugs and hop from one party or festival to another. I will dance my out of the harsh realities of Planet Earth Mark Passio
