History Quote by Bruce Catton

“It seemed impossible that men with hearts and brains were capable of it. Such devastation of cities, so many innocent lives lost. It seemed…

— Elizabeth Berg

Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war theater-all are complexes of numerous interrelated activities.…

— George Dantzig

And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less than the…

— Lysander Spooner

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

“Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope, duration and…

— Joy Degruy Leary

There is - and always will be - the legacy of chattel slavery in this nation, an obsession with racial and gender differences, but…

— Kehinde Wiley

Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and…

— Frederick Douglass