Slavery


The Underground Railroad
Kindred
Beloved
Homegoing
James
The Invention of Wings
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Kitchen House
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Twelve Years a Slave
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
The Water Dancer
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free ”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fernando Pessoa
“ Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free. And you can't hold this up as your own tragedy, for your birth is a tragedy of Fate alo ...more ”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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