Hard way Quote by Elizabeth Nunez

“You think there’s no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“let them behold him scourged, hunted, trampled on, and they will come back with another story in their mouths. Let them know the heart…

— Solomon Northup

“It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our poor be…

— Charles Darwin

“Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian”

— Sharon Lovejoy

“Slavery is as much about the psychological control of the master over the slave as of the physical domination, cruelty and exploitation which we…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured.”

— Colson Whitehead

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

— N. K. Jemisin

“Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the…

— Upton Sinclair

“The every day activity of slaves reproduces slavery”

— Fredy Perlman

“slavery was a worldwide institution, entrenched on every inhabited continent, subjugating people of every color, language, and religion,”

— Thomas Sowell

“The institution of slavery was, for a quarter millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for the profit…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope, duration and…

— Joy Degruy Leary