A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #47

“Only one fear was greater than the fear of black rebellion in the new American colonies. That was the fear that discontented whites would join black slaves to overthrow the existing order.”

– from the chapter “Drawing the Color Line” in Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, 1492 – Present

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