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Slavery all day,
and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom! — Margarita Engle

How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history? — Perry Marshall

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history. — John Ridley

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. — Colson Whitehead

I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Slavery isn't Black history," I point out. "It's everyone's history." A — Jodi Picoult

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. — Edmund Burke

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery. — Immortal Technique

Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time. — Jonathan R. Miller

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke. — Douglas Wilder

How a member of the church - one who had read the Good Lord's bible - could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me. — Jay Grewal

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. — Maya Angelou

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves. — A.E. Samaan

The world will never know you because you have not become a slave of your gift — Sunday Adelaja

What if history was changed? slavery reversed
Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse? — Fredro Starr

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness. — Ntozake Shange

< ... > tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture. — David Brion Davis

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history. — Mutabaruka

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery. — Robert M. T. Hunter

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton