Aristocracy Quote by Carl L. Becker

“By the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Virginia elites had taken the best land for themselves, leaving the former indentured servants land poor…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections,…

— John Sergeant Wise

“Virginia lawmakers made slave patrols compulsory for non-slaveholding Whites; these groups of White citizens were charged with policing slaves, enforcing discipline, and guarding routes…

— Ibram X. Kendi

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in…

— Julian Fellowes

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost,…

— Henry Charles Carey

Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it…

— Geraldine Brooks

“Virginia’s 1705 code mandated that planters provide freed White servants with fifty acres of land. The resulting White prosperity was then attributed to White…

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

— Eric Williams

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

— Mark Twain

Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North Carolina than…

— Ella Baker