Slavery Quotes by Colson Whitehead

If you want to understand America, it's slavery.

— Colson Whitehead

“How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured.”

— Colson Whitehead

For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess…

— Colson Whitehead

The fallout from slavery is ongoing. I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

— Colson Whitehead

“The ruthless engine of cotton required its fuel of African bodies. Crisscrossing the ocean, ships brought bodies to work the land and…

— Colson Whitehead

“White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him?…

— Colson Whitehead

Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else…

— Colson Whitehead

“Slavery as a moral issue never interested Ethel. If God had not meant for Africans to be enslaved, they wouldn’t be in…

— Colson Whitehead

“it means what it say," Ethel said. "It means that a Hebrew may not enslave a Hebrew. But the sons of Ham…

— Colson Whitehead

Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it…

— Colson Whitehead

“When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but…

— Colson Whitehead

Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it…

— Colson Whitehead