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“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
― The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
― The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
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“All presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously; for the law holds it better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent party suffer.”
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“Enslaved people recognized that the slavery they were experiencing was shaped by the ability of whites to move African Americans’ bodies wherever they wanted. Forced migration created markets that allowed whites to extract profit from human beings. It brought about a kind of isolation that permitted enslavers to use torture to extract new kinds of labor.”
― The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
― The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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