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“By the early eighteenth century, every Virginia county had a militia of landless Whites “ready in case of any sudden eruption of Indians or…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Without definitive expulsion of all the whites, violence would erupt again; it was just a matter of time. History had demonstrated graphically enough, on…

— Scott Wallace

“The whites got what they deserved. For enslaving her people, for massacring another race, for stealing the very land itself. Let them burn by…

— Colson Whitehead

“Thousands of brave black soldiers were dead for no other crime than that of refusing to be slaves once more. The colony was devastated,…

— CLR James

“Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre?”

— Carol Ryrie Brink

“George Washington had turned down the requests of blacks, seeking freedom, to fight in the Revolutionary army. So when the British military commander in…

— Howard Zinn

“For realists, the true story of the Civil War illuminates the problem of ostensibly sober-minded compromise with powerful, and intractable, evil. For radicals, the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou

“All over Revolutionary America, African people were rejecting the racist compact that asserted that they were meant to be enslaved.16”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“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

“We have been south and suffered a great deal down there. Many have died of diseases which we have no name for. Our hearts…

— Little Wolf

“These were not idle threats. Suspected labor agents were arrested routinely whenever a trainload of African Americans left or when the fields were empty…

— Carol Anderson