Slave Ships Quotes

• The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror, which was indeed its defining feature.

  Marcus Rediker

  Real, Britain And America, People

  Marcus Rediker (2007). “The Slave Ship: A Human History”, p.13, Penguin

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• Los africanos de Estados Unidos deben recordar que los barcos negreros no trajeron antillanos, caribeños, jamaicanos, trinitenses o barbadenses a este hemisferio. Los barcos negreros sólo trajeron africanos y la mayoría de nosotros tomamos la apariencia de nacionalidad de los lugares donde nos dejaron los barcos negreros.

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, West, United States

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• Estados Unidos ha sido el mejor país del mundo para los negros. Fue aquí donde 600.000 negros, traídos de África en barcos negreros, se convirtieron en una comunidad de 40 millones, conocieron la salvación cristiana y alcanzaron las mayores cotas de libertad y prosperidad que los negros han conocido jamás.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Country, America

  "Pat Buchanan cree que deberías estar más agradecido por la esclavitud, Barry Obama". The Jezebel Interview, jezebel.com. 24 de marzo de 2008.

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• Nadie le había enseñado nunca que un barco negrero, con una procesión de tiburones expectantes a su paso, es una institución misionera, mediante la cual se lleva a paganos hacinados a disfrutar de la luz del Evangelio.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Light, Sharks, Slavery

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1982). "Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly ; The Minister's Wooing ; Oldtown Folks", p.530, Library of America.

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• The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo. These filled me with astonishment, which was soon connected with terror, when I was carried on board. I was immediately handled, and tossed up to see if I were sound, by some of the crew; and I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me.

  Olaudah Equiano

  Eye, Anchors, Sea

  Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner (2017). “BREAKING THE CHAINS – The Essential & Powerful Narratives that Shook the Roots of Slavery (17 Books in One Volume): Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, Underground Railroad, 12 Years a Slave, Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom and many more”, p.1171, e-artnow

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• The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Mother, Country, Struggle

  "40thCconvention of the Islamic Society of North America [John Esposito recognized as the "Abu Taleb of Islam"]". www.campus-watch.org. September 6, 2004.

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• It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Games, People, Black

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• El Tribunal Supremo no dijo nada acerca de la estupidez, pero sospecho que puede desempeñar un papel más importante de lo que cabría suponer. La gente es, en todo caso, más susceptible de ser considerada tonta que de ser considerada injusta... Es probable que el primer barco negrero, con negros encadenados en su cubierta, pareciera lógico a los propietarios que lo manejaban y a los plantadores que lo patrocinaban. Pero un barco así no entraría hoy en el ámbito del sentido común. El único sentido común, a la larga, es el sentido del cambio.

  E. B. White

  Correr, Mentir, Tonto

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• People can be slave-ships in shoes.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Shoes, People, Ships

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). "Huellas de polvo en una carretera"

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• You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Roots, Envy, Tree

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• His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.

  Jesse Jackson

  America, Diversity, Tonight

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• from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

  Amiri Baraka

  Ships, Citizenship, Slave

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• And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

  Marco Rubio

  Airplane, Men, World

  "War of Choice" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.

  William J. Clinton

  Islands, Years, Yesterday

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.70, Best Books on

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• Sacrificio y luces de neón, Los esclavos no esperan, Ama a muchos, confía en pocos, Y no llegues tarde...

  Tom Morello

  Sacrifice, Light, Waiting

  "Song: One Man Revolution". April 24, 2007.

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• En su feroz y audaz determinación de ver de cerca la vida de los esclavos modernos, Benjamin Skinner me recuerda al abolicionista británico de hace doscientos años, Zachary Macaulay, que una vez viajó en un barco negrero a través del Atlántico, tomando notas. Skinner va a todas partes, desde los pasos fronterizos hasta los burdeles, pasando por las sesiones de regateo con los traficantes de seres humanos, para ofrecernos este relato vívido y mordaz de la amplia red de trata de seres humanos y servidumbre que se extiende por el globo actual.

  Adam Hochschild

  Determinación, Años, Dos

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• I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

  Kendrick Lamar

  Writing, Pyramids, Building

  Canción: HiiiiPoWeR, Álbum: Sección 80

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