“I forgot that in the land of my birth the shadows are too dense for light to penetrate.” — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I passed nearly a year in the family of Isaac and Amy Post, practical believers in the Christian doctrine of human brotherhood.… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
“Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
“Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery.” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“I knew the law would decide that I was his property, and would probably still give his daughter a claim to my… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“I had rather starve to death here, being a free man, than to have plenty in slavery. I cannot be a slave… — Benjamin Drew Copy Share Image
“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Several years after, he passed through our town and preached to his former congregation. In his afternoon sermon he addressed the colored… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Heroes deal out vengeance, wiping out insults, and in an existential sense denying their own death. In twentieth-century camps, however, Todorov found,… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“While slaveowners worked vigorously to allow slaves only so much biblical teaching as to make them good, docile, submissive slaves, even the… — Joel McDurmon Copy Share Image
![“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiritual abuse of black women--with its inevitable result being the destruction of the traditional…” quote by Aberjhani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/70b/aberjhani-1814_abuse-of-women_added-to-the-shock-of-the-routine-violat_1843874.jpg)
