Scott Wilson

“The first large-scale revolt in the North American colonies took place in New York in 1712. In New York, slaves were 10 percent of the population, the highest proportion in the northern states, where economic conditions usually did not require large numbers of field slaves.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present

“In two years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide, half of the 250,000 Indians on Haiti were dead.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present

“Slavery existed in the African states, and it was sometimes used by Europeans to justify their own slave trade. But, as Davidson points out, the “slaves” of Africa were more like the serfs of Europe—in other words, like most of the population of Europe.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present

“African slavery lacked two elements that made American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture; the reduction of the slave to less than human status by the use of racial hatred, with that relentless clarity based on color, where white was master, black was slave.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present