Books Quote by 5 Minute Publications

“Most striking, however, was the position taken in the 1840s by William Lloyd Garrison and his wing of the abolitionist movement. The Garrisonians had…

— Don E. Fehrenbacher

“This is a work of fiction, which, contrary to what any reader paying attention to recent events might assume, I began writing more than…

— Joy Jordan-Lake

“My narrative is at an end. I have no comments to make upon the subject of Slavery. Those who read this book may form…

— Solomon Northup

“Slaveowners in America were torturing the Africans they enslaved for reading, but the British had discovered the hard way of truth of the maxim…

— Elizabeth Nunez

“Aunt Hattie, when you wrote that book, I imagine you were thinking of something radical: the abolition of slavery itself. You were only one…

— Roxana Robinson

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

— John Wesley

“Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind…

— Susie Larson

I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen…

— Harriet Tubman

“Sincerely and earnestly hoping that this little book may do something toward throwing light on the American slave system, and hastening the glad day…

— Frederick Douglass

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once I'd read…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor