Alienation Quote by Saidiya Hartman

“But here in my hometown, history was like a fine dust that settled out on everything. There was nothing to counter it. The culture…

— Christina Carson

There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New…

— Alice Morse Earle

“the colonists in Jamestown perished. Of the five hundred who entered the winter, only sixty were alive by March. The situation was so desperate…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured…

— Jennifer Vanderbes

“that 90 percent of them had died by 1620, almost entirely a result of contact with settlers, who brought foreign diseases and”

— Christina Baker Kline

“It’s telling that Americans know and celebrate Plymouth but Jamestown hardly at all. The myth we’ve constructed says that the first nonnative new Americans…

— Kurt Andersen

“True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern…

— Sol Luckman

“Yes, all of this I thought about, all of this filled me with sorrow and a sense of helplessness, and if there was a…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“For these lands, and, I say, especially the northern parts of America, suffered so terribly from the full force of the last days of…

— William Morris

“Many of the people who left the South never exactly sat their children down to tell them these things, tell them what happened and…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“...the story of colonial-era America, rerun across an infinite frontier...All of which was fine, until the day you needed root-canal dentistry. Or your e-book…

— Stephen Baxter

“I loved the landscape, the heat, the unhurried days, the fragrant and languorous nights. But there was something else, too; a sense of belonging…

— Marie Jakober