A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir

by Jason Timbuktu Diakité

Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, that both the enslaved and the enslavers were ruined by this cruel system. Blacks were treated like animals and whites turned into animals.

African American author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in his article “The Case for Reparations” that in the United States in the nineteenth century, aspiring to be able to afford slaves was as natural as saving up for a house or a condo today.