Colson Whitehead Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• When it comes to how the slaves treat each other: If you've been brutalized all your life - if you have seen your children sold or your mother beaten and raped and you have been tortured yourself - you are not going to be up for your best behaviour. Even in the 21st century, 100 people in the midst of terrible suffering are not going to be their best people.

  Colson Whitehead

  Mother, Children, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.

  Colson Whitehead

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Source: www.oprah.com

• Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone. It meant knowing you are property that could be sold to the highest bidder, of value only to continue to support the plantation economy.

  Colson Whitehead

  Children, Support, Together

  Source: www.oprah.com

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