Andrea Stuart

“A slave’s life therefore was defined by his extreme powerlessness, over his person and the persons of his loved ones. This lack of autonomy engendered a sense of humiliation and dishonour. And this was the most pernicious heritage of slavery: that the slaves frequently internalized the master’s denigration and abuse and turned it into self-loathing, creating the mental slavery that imprisoned the slaves as surely as their shackles; what the Caribbean historian and poet Edward Brathwaite dubbed the “inner plantation.”
― Andrea Stuart

“understood that migration was a kind of death, in which one’s old self must be buried in order for a new self to be born, and that this move has made me who I am today.”
― Andrea Stuart, Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire