Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to…

A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read… Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing it through…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, who had spent much of his youth in Europe, expressed surprise and shock when John C. Calhoun, a…

— David Brion Davis

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling…

— Frederick Douglass

Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than…

— David Walker

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

— Denis Kearney

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

— Susan B. Anthony

“Occasionally, however, when chided by their slaves or others, slaveholders did act in concert with the better selves of their paternalist rhetoric. William Green's…

— Walter Johnson

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and elevate it…

— Bill Maher

The idea that the country should be led by white men goes back to antebellum slaveholders, who argued that the world was naturally divided…

— Heather Cox Richardson

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do…

— Gerrit Smith

“This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a manner as…

— Frederick Douglass

“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they spread their…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on,”

— Edwin H Friedman