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The Water Dancer

Book by Ta-Nehisi Coates · 10 quotes · Chapter 3, The Water Dancer, Slavery

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“La schiavitù era la radice di tutte le lotte. Infatti si diceva che le fabbriche rendessero schiave le mani dei bambini, e che la gravidanza rendesse schiavo il corpo delle donne, e che il rum rendesse schiava l'anima degli uomini. In quel momento capii, da quel turbinio di idee, che quella guerra segreta veniva condotta contro qualcosa di più dei Padroni della Virginia, che noi intendevamo non solo migliorare il mondo, ma rifarlo da capo.”

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“All of these fanatics were white. They took slavery as a personal insult or affront, a stain upon their name. They had seen women carried off to fancy, or watched as a father was stripped and beaten in front of his child, or seen whole families pinned like hogs into rail-cars, steam-boats, and jails. Slavery humiliated them, because it offended a basic sense of goodness that they believed themselves to possess. And when their cousins perpetrated the base practice, it served to remind them how easily they might do the same. They scorned their barbaric brethren, but they were brethren all the same. So their opposition was a kind of vanity, a hatred of slavery that far outranked any love of the slave.”

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