Awful Quote by David C. Driskell

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and…

— Solomon Northup

For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.

— Colson Whitehead

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in…

— Mark Twain

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown…

— Wynton Marsalis

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

— Paul Mooney

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil…

— Robert E. Lee

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across…

— Anonymous

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

— Robert E. Lee

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

— Anais Nin

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

— John Ridley

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed…

— Angela Davis