Slaves Quote by Charles A. Beard

It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Slave ships landed more than 1.5 million African captives on British Caribbean islands (primarily Jamaica and Barbados) by the late 1700s and had brought…

— Edward E. Baptist

At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end…

— Isabel Wilkerson

The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among…

— Margaret Sanger

“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

From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but the vast…

— Ann Coulter

“By 1870, roughly 284,000 blacks accounted for 12 percent of the population of sixteen Western states and territories. But Negroes actually show up as…

— Nicholas Johnson

There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before…

— Michelle Alexander