Robin

“In South Carolina, a man was murdered and his stepdaughter whipped because she’d had the insolence to “embarrass” a white family by bearing the child of one of its members.”
― Derrick Jensen, The Culture of Make Believe

“I had never seen a sneer morph so seamlessly into a smile before. Her moods could switch from superior to vile to magnanimous in moments. I couldn’t think of a more dangerous personality.”
― Anonymous

“I think that we Americans, at least in the Southern col[onie]s, cannot contend with a good grace for liberty until we shall have enfranchised our slaves,” Laurens told a friend right before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

“One planter in Georgia argued that a former slave had shown himself “certainly unfit for freedom” because, “impudently,” he didn’t allow himself to be whipped.”
― Derrick Jensen, The Culture of Make Believe