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“The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.”

Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839

“Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.”

Whole Culture Parent Ignorance Slavery Vices Folly Hostile Begets

Book:The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it

Source: The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it

“One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings, horrible; lynching death, all of that, horrible. But the living life of a parent who, A, has no control over what happens to your children, none. They don't belong to you. You may not even nurse them. They may be shipped off somewhere, as in "Beloved" the mother was, to be nursed by somebody who was not able to work in the fields and was a wet nurse.”

May Children Country Happens Able Mother Parent Fields Labor Our Children Slavery Horrible Live Life Beloved Your Children Breakup Nurse Wet Monstrous Lynching

Author:Toni Morrison

“Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.”

Men Mind Parent Levels Produce Ignorance Fellows Slavery Woods Observation Comparison Domination Barbarism Abhorrence Tenants

Book:Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

“Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.”

Children Has Beens Two Today Social Parent Black Grew Grew Up Slavery Driven Legacy Desperate Ghetto Pathology

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up the black family. Today, just slightly over 30 percent of black kids live in two-parent families. Historically, from the 1870s on. . . 75-90 percent of black kids lived in two-parent families.”

Two States Done Kids Today Parent Black Break Racism Percent Slavery Welfare Crow Welfare State Jim Crow Black Family Families Today

Author:John Stossel

“If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, common sense, tradition, everything. You would have been against everything.”

Ifs Persons Has Beens Law Parent Church White Common Tradition Slavery Common Sense Pastor Your Past

Author:Bill Ayers

“In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.”

“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.”

Two Literature Parent Born Method Slavery Educational Tyranny Selfishness Tyrants

Book:Letters to friends, family, and editors

Source: Letters to friends, family, and editors

“I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.”

Wells May Children Reality Father Parent Depends Our Children Institutions Slavery Feminist Granted Stability Cynical Arrangements Family Life Misandry Concubines

Author:Sylvia Fraser