Slavery Quotes

“Even upon liberation, when revenge against their tormentors at last became possible, mass uprisings very rarely occurred. “Even when the whole system was overthrown by the Allies,” says David Rousset writing of Buchenwald, “nothing happened. . . . The American officer appointed to command”
― Stanley Elkins, Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life

“Many old prisoners actually imitated the SS; they would sew and mend their uniforms in such a way as to make them look more like those of the SS—even though they risked punishment for it. “When asked why they did it, they admitted that they loved to look like . . . the guards.” Some took great enjoyment in the fact that during roll call “they really had stood well at”
― Stanley Elkins, Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life