American history Quote by Trevor P. Wardlaw

“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn finer…

— N.K. Jemisin

“ When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn…

— N. K. Jemisin

“Both slaves and owners were human, and strong relationships often grew between them. But”

— Robert K McIver

“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of a new…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control would be…

— Toni Morrison

“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by…

— Mark Twain

“The every day activity of slaves reproduces slavery”

— Fredy Perlman

The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries

— George Bernard Shaw

“What does he know of the half-starved wretches toiling from dawn till dark on the plantations? of mothers shrieking for their children, torn from…

— Harriet Jacobs

“Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the…

— Upton Sinclair

“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

“I had the opportunity in this visit of seeing how great a power the master exercises over his slaves, but at the same time…

— Victor Hugo