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Eric Williams

(1911–1981) Historian Nigeria

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Eric Williams was a historian from Nigeria, best known for The Tunnel.

Quick Facts About Eric Williams

Born: September 25, 1911
Died: March 29, 1981
Nationality: Nigeria
Profession: Historian
Notable works: The Tunnel

About Eric Williams

Eric Eustace Williams was a Trinidad and Tobago politician. He has been dubbed the "Father of the Nation", having led the then-British Colony of Trinidad and Tobago to majority rule on 28 October 1956, to independence on 31 August 1962, and republic status, on 1 August 1976, leading an unbroken string of general election victories with his political party, the People's National Movement, until his death in 1981. He represented Port of Spain South in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Eric Williams

They have no right to complain! If women were cool with knowing their man is cheating on them then they have no…

Cheating

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Some things youll never know, and some things youll wish you never knew.

Knows

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My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it…

Approach

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“slavery was an economic institution of the first importance. It had been the basis of Greek economy and had built up the…

Coffee cup

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Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

Born

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Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew.

Wish

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“Negro slavery, thus, had nothing to do with climate. Its origin can be expressed in three words: in the Caribbean, Sugar; on…

Change

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I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master,…

Baseball

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You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized,…

Big world

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For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing…

Church

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“The reasons for slavery, wrote Gibbon Wakefield, “are not moral, but economical circumstances; they relate not to vice and virtue, but to…

Character

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“Under certain circumstances slavery has some obvious advantages. In the cultivation of crops like sugar, cotton and tobacco, where the cost of…

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“Negro slaves, one-twentieth of the population in 1670, were one-fourth in 1730. “Slavery, from being an insignificant factor in the economic life…

Life

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“Expansion is a necessity of slave societies; the slave power requires ever fresh conquests.17 “It is more profitable,” wrote Merivale, “to cultivate…

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Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members…

Apathy

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“Here, then, is the origin of Negro slavery. The reason was economic, not racial; it had to do not with the color…

North carolina

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“The first instance of slave trading and slave labor developed in the New World involved, racially, not the Negro but the Indian.…

Way of life

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“The plantation economy had no room for poor whites; the proprietor or over-seer, a physician on the more prosperous plantations, possibly their…

Family

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Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started…

Ball player

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“the Indian slave was inefficient. The Spaniards discovered that one Negro was worth four Indians.22 A prominent official in Hispaniola insisted in…

Patience

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To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a…

Differences

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