Bondage Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“for far longer: Blacks were enslaved in this country for 244 years, from 1619 to 1863. As of 2010, they have been free for 147 years.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

“It was well understood that if by the teaching of history the white man could be further assured of his superiority and the Negro…

— Carter G. Woodson

“The negroes been freed.' 'Well, I ain't.”

— Andrew Lytle

“More African American adults are under correctional control today – in prison or jail, on probation or parole – than were enslaved in 1850,…

— Michelle Alexander

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

— Malcolm X

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

— John Henrik Clarke

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

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have…

— C. L. R. James

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“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