1,063 Quotes About Slavery

The submissive femininity of radical feminism was bourgeois, white and heterosexual. There was no acknowledgement that this ‘enslaved’ femininity was not universal, or that it was complicit in the actual enslavement of generations of Black people.

There's a castle on the coast of Fanteland called the Cape Coast Castle. That is where they used to keep the slaves before they sent them away, to Aburokyire: America, Jamaica. Asante traders would bring in their captives. Fante, Ewa, or Ga middlemen would hold them, then sell them to the British or Dutch or whoever was paying the most at the time. Everyone was responsible. We all were... we all are.

Affirmative action is the giving, to some people, of a fair disadvantage.

By 1775, 500,000 of the thirteen colonies' 2.5 million inhabitants were slaves

By the 1780s, many white Americans and a growing cadre of British reformers believed that modern civilized nations could no longer engage in the brutalities of the Middle Passage

For Americans, the hardest part of paying reparations would not be the outlay of money. It would be acknowledging that their most cherished myth was not real.

I, too, live in the time of slavery, by which I mean I am living in the future created by it.

You can’t ‘get over’ something that is still happening. Which is why black Americans can’t ‘get over’ slavery or Jim Crow. It may be quite a while—likely past all of our lifetimes—before white people will be able to say ‘nigger’ without harming black people.

Anybody who thinks that shadeism does not exist is not being honest.