Tom’s Reviews > The Burden of Southern History > Status Update

"Equality was a far more revolutionary aim than freedom, though it may not have seemed so at first. Slavery seemed so formidable, so powerfully entrenched in law and prop­erty, and so fiercely defended by arms that it appeared far the greater obstacle. Yet slavery was property based on law. The law could be changed and the property expro­priated. Not so inequality. Its entrenchments were deeper and subtler."