Quote by Howard Zinn

“American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture; the reduction of the…

— Howard Zinn

“Here, then, is the origin of Negro slavery. The reason was economic, not racial; it had to do not with the color of the…

— Eric Williams

“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

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

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

“In addition, the most reliable and recent studies of African tribal culture demonstrated that slavery was a long-standing custom among the Africans themselves, so…

— Joseph J. Ellis

That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It literally destroyed…

— John Edgar Wideman

“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to dehumanise a…

— John Barnes

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

— Stephen Ambrose