The first Black Migration to this country was forced migration. It was the Middle Passage. — William Barr Copy Share Image
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“African American racial consciousness responds to the horrors of the Middle Passage and New World slavery as well as to the unfulfilled… — Bruce Dain Copy Share Image
The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Copy Share Image
I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“PROGENY OF THE MIDDLE PASSAGE The leaky little tubs which the sea devours are the granddaughters of those slave ships. Today’s slaves,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
