Quote by Patricia Briggs

“About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.”

— Christina Stead

“She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had become a great grandmother in his…

— Frederick Douglass

“She was a slave to his lust, while he was a slave to her pain.”

— M.S. Willis

“She’d discovered the beginnings of her adult person, her preference for lucidity, prudence, responsibility, and restraint. Tranquility could be eked from boredom, results from…

— V.S. Kemanis

“Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman. There…

— Frederick Douglass

“Hard, dangerous, unhealthy work was better performed by slaves than those who were free. Or who thought themselves so.”

— David Baldacci

“This slavery breeds ugly passions in man.”

— Herman Melville

“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”

— Charles Williams

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“Lingering here, bored and comfortable, was a form of self-punishment tinged with pleasure, or the expectation of it; if she went away something bad…

— Ian McEwan

“The girl was in fact so patient with the old lady that she had not yet noticed that she was never given an opportunity…

— Charles Williams

“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.”

— Nicholas D. Kristof