Programming Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“Virginia lawmakers made slave patrols compulsory for non-slaveholding Whites; these groups of White citizens were charged with policing slaves, enforcing discipline, and guarding routes…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“By the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Virginia elites had taken the best land for themselves, leaving the former indentured servants land poor…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

“By the early eighteenth century, every Virginia county had a militia of landless Whites “ready in case of any sudden eruption of Indians or…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The plantation economy had no room for poor whites; the proprietor or over-seer, a physician on the more prosperous plantations, possibly their families, these…

— Eric Williams

“Rich planters learned from Bacon’s Rebellion that poor Whites had to be forever separated from enslaved Blacks. They divided and conquered by creating more…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Planters responded to labor demands and laborers’ unity by purchasing more African people and luring Whiteness away from Blackness.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“It was a complex chain of oppression in Virginia. The Indians were plundered by white frontiersmen, who were taxed and controlled by the Jamestown…

— Howard Zinn

“Cotton says, “If God be the gardener, who shall pluck up what he sets down?” Hear that, Indians? No weeding of the white people…

— Sarah Vowell

...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner.…

— Rita Mae Brown

“What made Bacon’s Rebellion especially fearsome for the rulers of Virginia was that black slaves and white servants joined forces. The final surrender was…

— Howard Zinn

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Jefferson and like-minded planters of the Upper South started deliberately “breeding” captives to supply the Deep South’s demand. “I consider a woman who brings…

— Ibram X. Kendi