Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“During America’s first century, racist theological ideas were absolutely critical to sanctioning the growth of American slavery and making it acceptable to the Christian…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Slavery as a moral issue never interested Ethel. If God had not meant for Africans to be enslaved, they wouldn’t be in chains.”

— Colson Whitehead

“All over Revolutionary America, African people were rejecting the racist compact that asserted that they were meant to be enslaved.16”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Many politicians and preachers defended slavery, citing the Bible’s approval of the practice, the inferiority of the African race, the value of preserving the…

— Steven Pinker

“For the African race, such as Providence has made it, and where He has placed it in America, slavery was the righteous, the best,…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

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

— Angie Thomas

“The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner…

— Barry Unsworth

“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

“Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears…

— R.J. Rushdoony

“Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes and interpretations…

— Andrew Himes

“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of a new…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Give a slave slaves, and he will support slavery.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov