Any Quote by Charles Guggenheim

“He pointed out that the so-called just wars between Africans were actually instigated by European slave-traders drumming up demand for captives.4 Meanwhile,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

— George Haven Putnam

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from…

— Fred F. Fielding

“There was something decidedly unpleasant about him, sinister, at the same time absurd, that combination of the ludicrous and alarming soon to be widely…

— Anthony Powell

“Like so many, he felt that his primary obligation was to Virginia. He had hoped for a political resolution, hoping to avoid war, having…

— Charles River Editors

“What does he know of the half-starved wretches toiling from dawn till dark on the plantations? of mothers shrieking for their children, torn from…

— Harriet Jacobs

“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn finer…

— N.K. Jemisin

“By the way he reacted, you would have thought I told him that slavery never happened. He laid into me with the same gusto…

— Chelsea Handler

“I considered the northern white stance against slavery. How much of the desire to end the institution was fueled by a need to quell…

— Percival Everett

“There was always someone outside of the chalk circle. Someone who needed money, someone who had a son with whooping cough, or someone who…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“if something happened and he wasn’t present, he didn’t care about it and barely recognized it. His response then was often just a blank…

— Michael Wolff

“While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark period in…

— Trevor P. Wardlaw