Abolition of slavery Quote by Richard Rothstein

“The core argument of this book is that African Americans were unconstitutionally denied the means and the right to integration in middle-class neighborhoods, and…

— Richard Rothstein

[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought to repeal…

— Harry Browne

“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

A slew of federal civil rights legislation protecting the newly freed slaves was passed during the relatively brief but extraordinary period of black advancement…

— Michelle Alexander

“But where Lincoln’s absent hand was felt most keenly was in race relations. Black codes were passed in state after state across the South—as…

— Jay Winik

“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of offenses--like child…

— Amy Watkins

“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was the key…

— Andrew P. Napolitano

“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

“Modern society did not abolish slavery, but only regulated it.”

— Dario de Judicibus

“One of the substantive policy issues raised in the Constitution discussion (primarily in letters rather than public meetings, it seems) was the abolition of…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up in the…

— Michelle Singletary

“In February 1866, he testified before Congress to oppose suffrage for former slaves: “My own opinion is that, at this time, they cannot vote…

— Ron Chernow