Father Quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

— Michael Shaara

“ “It doesn’t matter where you go in the South, because the whole South seems to be married to one another.” --Marlyn Swartz, Texas…

— Deborah Ford

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we…

— Gerrit Smith

“Southerners have a lot to be proud of. We have survived, and we have overcome. Southern women, especially, have learned to be proud of…

— Deborah Ford

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and…

— Fanny Kemble

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

— Susan B. Anthony

Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is…

— Allison Glock

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic…

— Dean Koontz

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…

— Abraham Lincoln

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

— Albert Einstein

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows…

— Henry David Thoreau

“… a Southerner is BORN into the lifestyle, there just ain’t no choice about it. Yer either a Southerner or ya ain’t.”

— Chad B Hanson