Children Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course…

— William C. Bryant

“A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar,—and to hate slavery…

— Frederick Douglass

The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity,…

— James Baldwin

“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

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying…

— John Sergeant Wise

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Forced labor was one of the most widespread and most deeply resented of the chronic abuses to which conquered Africans were subjected.”

— Thomas Sowell

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which…

— Fanny Kemble

“Although there was always generosity in the Negro neighborhood, it was indulged on pain of sacrifice. Whatever was given by Black people to other…

— Maya Angelou

“switched to slaves. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per cent of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per cent of them worked on…

— Yuval Noah Harari