--- title: "4 African americans Quotes By Edward E. Baptist" description: "4 African americans quotes by Edward E. Baptist. Plus more from Edward E. Baptist and more African americans sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa3/edward-e-baptist-26840_african-american_enslaved-african-americans-built-the-mod_436426.jpg" --- > [“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/enslaved-african-americans-built-the-modern-united-states-and-indeed/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa3/edward-e-baptist-26840_african-american_enslaved-african-americans-built-the-mod_436426.jpg) > [“Within half a century after Butler sent Charles Mallory away from Fortress Monroe empty-handed, the children of white Union and Confederate soldiers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/within-half-a-century-after-butler-sent-charles-mallory-away-from/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/075/edward-e-baptist-26840_african-american_within-half-a-century-after-butler-sent_455114.jpg) > [“Many whites, now proclaiming that science proved that people of African descent were intellectually inferior and congenitally prone to criminal behavior, looked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/many-whites-now-proclaiming-that-science-proved-that-people-of/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc0/edward-e-baptist-26840_african-american_many-whites-now-proclaiming-that-science_1147839.jpg) > [“The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/the-idea-that-the-commodification-and-suffering-and-forced-labor-of/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c6/edward-e-baptist-26840_african-american_the-idea-that-the-commodification-and-su_1723144.jpg) ## Other authors on African americans - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-michelle-alexander-67636.jpg) Michelle Alexander 27 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/african-americans/michelle-alexander/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-tanehisi-coates-88839.jpg) Ta-Nehisi Coates 20 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/african-americans/ta-nehisi-coates/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-elizabeth-bear-32477.jpg) Richard Rothstein 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/african-americans/richard-rothstein/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ann-petry-13575.jpg) Ann Petry 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/african-americans/ann-petry/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-angie-thomas-2699.jpg) Angie Thomas 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/african-americans/angie-thomas/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/african-americans/barack-obama/) - [Martin Luther King Jr 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/african-americans/martin-luther-king-jr-2/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rand-paul-77216.jpg) Rand Paul 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/african-americans/rand-paul/) - [Maya Angelou 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/african-americans/maya-angelou/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/african-americans/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-van-jones-93135.jpg) Van Jones 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/african-americans/van-jones/) - [Salim Akil 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/african-americans/salim-akil/) ## More by Edward E. Baptist > [“few years after Ball was herded south, a slave trader marched a coffle past the US Capitol just as a gaggle of congressmen took…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/few-years-after-ball-was-herded-south-a-slave-trader-marched-a-coffle/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) > [“American” women (and a few men) complained that here, wealthy white men sometimes lived with mulatto women until it came time to marry a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/american-women-and-a-few-men-complained-that-here-wealthy-white-men/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) > [“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/enslaved-african-americans-built-the-modern-united-states-and-indeed/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) > [“Within half a century after Butler sent Charles Mallory away from Fortress Monroe empty-handed, the children of white Union and Confederate soldiers united against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/within-half-a-century-after-butler-sent-charles-mallory-away-from/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) > [“The returns from cotton monopoly powered the modernization of the rest of the American economy, and by the time of the Civil War, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/the-returns-from-cotton-monopoly-powered-the-modernization-of-the/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) > [“Chains enabled another kind of violence to be done as well. Chains saved whites from worrying about placating this one’s mother, or buying that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/chains-enabled-another-kind-of-violence-to-be-done-as-well-chains/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) > [“Once all the gold and silver had been thoroughly stolen, the empires found even greater sources of wealth by laying a belt of plantation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/once-all-the-gold-and-silver-had-been-thoroughly-stolen-the-empires/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) > [“One night at a tavern in Virginia’s Greenbrier County, a traveler watched as a group of traders put a coffle of people in one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/one-night-at-a-tavern-in-virginia-s-greenbrier-county-a-traveler/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) > [“Many whites, now proclaiming that science proved that people of African descent were intellectually inferior and congenitally prone to criminal behavior, looked wistfully to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/many-whites-now-proclaiming-that-science-proved-that-people-of/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) > [“But he forgot to close a lock one night, and as a newspaper reported, “the negroes rose and cut the throat of Mr. Speers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/but-he-forgot-to-close-a-lock-one-night-and-as-a-newspaper-reported/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) > [“by the 1840s the North had built a complex, industrialized economy on the backs of enslaved people and their highly profitable cotton labor. Yet,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/by-the-1840s-the-north-had-built-a-complex-industrialized-economy-on/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/heroes-deal-out-vengeance-wiping-out-insults-and-in-an-existential/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) > [“The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/the-idea-that-the-commodification-and-suffering-and-forced-labor-of/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) > [“Even today, most US history textbooks tell the story of the Louisiana Purchase without admitting that slave revolution in Saint-Domingue made it possible. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/even-today-most-us-history-textbooks-tell-the-story-of-the-louisiana/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) > [“The next day, as they walked, a stranger rode up, matching the Georgia-man’s pace. “Niggers for sale?” He wanted to buy two women. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-e-baptist/the-next-day-as-they-walked-a-stranger-rode-up-matching-the-georgia/) [Edward E. Baptist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-e-baptist/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/african-americans/edward-e-baptist/#itemlist", "name": "4 African americans Quotes By Edward E. 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