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“They'd heard it all, but hadn't they earned their freedom? The days of running through forests and living under floorboards. Wasn't that the price they had paid?”

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Book:Homegoing

Source: Homegoing

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

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“No, now the domestic market is full up with other planters' troublesome slaves. Our only salvation is to scientifically breed a stable order of docile Negro. I've come up with three tenets: Isolation. Religion. Family...." Master Ben”

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Author:Jonathan Odell

“The old woman crossed over to her. "When I speak of the people," she said barely above a whisper, her voice all weariness and grief, "I ain't just talking about the flesh, the blood. It's their voices. Their yes's and no's. That's what holds muscle to bone. The biggest thing the white man takes from us ain't our bodies. He takes our voices, too. He swallows up our yes's and no's like biscuits. But one day our yes's and no's will be so loud and strong they will lodge in his throat. He will have to spit them out to keep from choking. He will starve. There won't be nothing left of him except the shadows he casts on the deadest night.”

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Author:Jonathan Odell

“I forgot that in the land of my birth the shadows are too dense for light to penetrate.”

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Book:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“It is a sad feeling to be afraid of one's native country.”

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Book:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“Are doctors of divinity blind or are they hypocrites?”

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Book:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“I passed nearly a year in the family of Isaac and Amy Post, practical believers in the Christian doctrine of human brotherhood. They measured a man's worth by his character, not by his complexion.”

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Book:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

“Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and oppressed against the strength of their tyrants.”

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Book:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“Several years after, he passed through our town and preached to his former congregation. In his afternoon sermon he addressed the colored people. 'My friends,' said he, 'it affords me great happiness to have an opportunity of speaking to you again. For two years I have been striving to do something for the colored people of my own parish; but nothing is yet accomplished. I have not even preached a sermon to them. Try to live according to the word of God, my friends. Your skin is darker than mine; but God judges men by their hearts, not by the color of their skins." This was strange doctrine from a southern pulpit. It was very offensive to slaveholders.”

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Book:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself