Quote by Colson Whitehead

“When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but no one…

— Colson Whitehead

“In the 1860s the leaders of the cotton belt made one of the most prodigious miscalculations in recorded history. On the eve of the…

— Bruce Catton

“This is our struggle: to re-bury the coal and slow the flow of petroleum from the earth," she counted them off from pinky to…

— Robert Stikmanz

“It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but not one of them could be prideful of their labor. It had been stolen…

— Colson Whitehead

“Planters of impossibilities suddenly became planters of possibilities when instructing imported Africans on the complexities of proslavery theory, racist ideas, tobacco production, skilled trades,…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“...colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.”

— S. A. David

“The small sands in that waste was all there was for the wind to move and it moved with a constant migratory seething upon…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered…

— Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

“Slaves were among the main commodities traded during this era, which preceded the era of European territorial conquests in sub-Saharan Africa.”

— Thomas Sowell

“The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.”

— Michael Lee West

“We have bestowed on Africa just enough of the disposable junk of the modern world to create in African cities a junkyard replica of…

— Paul Theroux

“The act of farming starts in the heart before it reaches the soil.”

— Olawale Daniel