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A quote from WE DuBois, speaking at a gathering in Niagara, NY in 1903:
"We refuse to allow the impression to remain that the Negro-American assents to inferiority, is submissive under oppression and apologetic before insults. Through helplessness we may submit, but the voice of protest of ten million Americans must never cease to assail the ears of their fellows so long as America is unjust."

A couple of quotes from these first 290 pages.
Columbus, writing in his diary after meeting the Arawaks: "They would make fine servants. With 50 men we could subjugate them all & make them do whatever we want."
Much later, the father of James Mellon wrote to him encouraging him to buy his way out of service in the Civil War, "There are plenty of lives less valuable."

Fascinating!