Firsts Quote by Bernard Bailyn

I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my revolutionary commitments;…

— Murray Bookchin

“Blankets could be used to represent the warmth and comfort of Libertarian ideals. And the world would be a better place, if most politicians…

— Jarod Kintz

Libertarianism is what you probably already believe: Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America's heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work to build…

— David Bergland

Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew exactly who…

— Kevin Carson

More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive from their…

— Noam Chomsky

America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional debate.

— Ross Douthat

“Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the…

— Upton Sinclair

“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery,…

— Timothy Keller

Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.

— Jeanne Phillips

“Even when the 13th Amendment was passed to abolish slavery with an exception of servitude as a penalty for criminal conviction, the introduction of…

— Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele

American chattel slavery was practically defined by the fundamental instability of Black families. The institution rested on the expropriation of the reproductive capacities of…

— Jamelle Bouie

“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes and interpretations…

— Andrew Himes