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“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

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was…

— David Oyelowo

Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American…

— David Swanson

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope with. Like…

— Louis C. K

“Here, then, is the origin of Negro slavery. The reason was economic, not racial; it had to do not with the color of the…

— Eric Williams

I didn't know enough about the Civil War or its lingering effects as we all should. It's really easy to think that the Civil…

— Bryce Pinkham

It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery…

— Gerald Horne

That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It literally destroyed…

— John Edgar Wideman

The story of emancipation, going really back to the founding of the country all the way to the civil war is very much the…

— Jamelle Bouie

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But…

— Chuck D

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

— Andrew Johnson