“People can be slave-ships in shoes.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.”
Frederick Douglas
“The Moment You Decided to Ask a Doctor for a Drug Was the Moment You Became a Slave. Most Everyone These Days is a Slave and Don't Realize it.”
theHealthFoodGuru
“(According to those who drove the slave ship), if we lose 25 to 50 percent of 'cargo,' we could make money.”
Michael Barnes
“Africans in the hull of a slave ship.”
Jesse Jackson
“One hundred and seventy five years ago we were slaves here in Mississippi. We came here as a slave with no rights, but today we come back to be part of the rebuilding of the state. How beautiful is that?”
Quetel Osterval
