Been Quote by Lisa Kristine

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes…

— Lisa Kristine

I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen…

— Harriet Tubman

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom…

— Frederick Douglass

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

— Simon Bolivar

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to…

— Bob Edwards

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and…

— Alex Haley

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

— Andrew Johnson

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.

— Juan Somavia

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

— John Henrik Clarke

As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always…

— Sterling K. Brown

Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there.

— Robin Wasserman