America Quote by Aldis Hodge

Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America. Before them…

— Lorne Greene

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

“Americans have found it particularly difficult to come to terms with our “slave origins,” perhaps because the national history of the United States makes…

— Gavin Wright

“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It…

— Clint Smith

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and…

— Solomon Northup

There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The first slave came to Florida in 1526. The first one we know by name, Esteban, which means Stephen, came a couple of years…

— Henry Louis Gates

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

— Paul Mooney

A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.

— Sherley Anne Williams

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much…

— Alexander Herzen

“It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in…

— Thomas Sowell