North and south Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“No matter what African people did, they were barbaric beasts or brutalized like beasts. If they did not clamor for freedom, then their obedience…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“resisting Africans were nearly always cast as violent criminals, not people reacting to enslavers’ regular brutality, or pressing for the most basic human desire:…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by…

— Mark Twain

“African slavery lacked two elements that made American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes…

— Howard Zinn

“Every February, my classmates and I were herded into assemblies for a ritual review of the Civil Rights Movement. Our teachers urged us toward…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

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

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

— Angie Thomas

In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system…

— Ida B. Wells

Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are…

— Ibn Khaldun

“Thousands of brave black soldiers were dead for no other crime than that of refusing to be slaves once more. The colony was devastated,…

— CLR James

“When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight. But to me it…

— Bonnie Greer