American exceptionalism Quote by Susan Sontag

“On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or…

— Brandi L. Bates

“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

The great evil of American slavery was involuntary servitude or forced labor. I really believe that the true evil of American slavery was the…

— Bryan Stevenson

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

— John Adams

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

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Slavery was one of the worst crimes against humanity and endured by those who built our great nation.

— Al N. Green

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.”

— Edward E. Baptist

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

“Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.”

— John Adams

Modern day slavery is the great tragedy of our time and the U.S. cannot turn a blind eye to it on our soil or…

— Mark Meadows

American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of…

— James Madison