Middle Passage Quotes
- I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep… — Arthur Ashe
- We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by… — Angela Davis
- It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
- You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to...… — Henry Louis Gates