“The first instance of slave trading and slave labor developed in the New World involved, racially, not the Negro but the Indian. The Indians rapidly succumbed to the excessive labor demanded of them, the insufficient diet, the white man’s diseases,… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
They have no right to complain! If women were cool with knowing their man is cheating on them then they have no right to… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
Some things youll never know, and some things youll wish you never knew. — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
“slavery was an economic institution of the first importance. It had been the basis of Greek economy and had built up the Roman Empire.… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery. — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew. — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
“Negro slavery, thus, had nothing to do with climate. Its origin can be expressed in three words: in the Caribbean, Sugar; on the mainland, Tobacco and Cotton. A change in the economic structure produced a corresponding change in the labor supply. The fundamental fact was “the creation of an inferior social and economic organization of exploiters and exploited.”98 Sugar, tobacco,… — Eric Williams Copy Share
I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large.… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line. — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
“The reasons for slavery, wrote Gibbon Wakefield, “are not moral, but economical circumstances; they relate not to vice and virtue, but to production.”13 With” — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
“Under certain circumstances slavery has some obvious advantages. In the cultivation of crops like sugar, cotton and tobacco, where the cost of production is… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
