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My mother and her sisters all used this word like a swear word.
“Justice Robert Taney wrote that blacks “were so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that [all blacks] might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery.”
― American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
― American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
“brung here for the sake of their Heads, which decorate our Levee, all the way up the coast,” wrote planter Samuel Hambleton. “They look like crows sitting on long poles.” Along the”
― American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
― American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
“He had always admired his wife’s idealism, her belief that the world could be made better,”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
“David L. Cohn, in the 1935 book God Shakes Creation, wrote that, for a colored man without a white sponsor, “his fate is in the lap of the gods.”
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
“pharmacist had everyone’s attention, he turned to the dog. “What would you rather do?” the pharmacist asked the dog. “Be a nigger or die?” The dog rolled over on cue. It flipped onto its back, folded its legs, shut its eyes, and froze. The grown people”
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
― The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Dwight’s 2025 Year in Books
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