“ 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
