Civil rights Quote by Alabama Jane Brown

“Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. It became a publishing sensation. Lincoln was later wryly to remark to her: ‘So you're…

— Michael Shaara

I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen…

— Harriet Tubman

“Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, "So you're the little woman that started this great war!”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“In the 1800s, the United States was divided over the issue of slavery. The North wanted the country to end all slavery. But the…

— Mary Pope Osborne

“And now the lies of the Civil War and the lies of these post-racial years began to resonate with each other, and I could…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“I felt entangled now: this March, this South, this war, history. History could not possibly let the South get away with slavery; history would…

— Cynthia Bass

“It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all of America,…

— Clyde Brion Davis

“For realists, the true story of the Civil War illuminates the problem of ostensibly sober-minded compromise with powerful, and intractable, evil. For radicals, the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Lincoln, who had a personal aversion to blacks and feared they could never be absorbed into a white society, wanted to see them settled…

— James A. Michener

“Jim Crow dominated the lives of black people in America from 1890 well into the twentieth century. From conception to coffin, there was no…

— Carol Anderson

“All people—white and colored, slave and free, Union and Confederate—shared a common humanity belied by their outward differences. In a time of discord, in…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.”

— Ulysses S. Grant