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“Gaines offers Melinda, a biracial slave, her freedom if she promises to be his kept sex slave.”
“Flight to Canada was a commercial failure, which led to Random House’s decision not to publish any more of my novels.”
“Marion Sims was an American Dr.”
“His speech mirrors that of Huckleberry Finn’s father, Pap Finn, in Mark Twain’s novel.”
“In these books, Africa was inhabited by ferocious animals and barely human men and women.”
“In our textbooks Blacks appeared happy with their condition under slavery.”
“I became so captivated by this book that when Stalin died, I tuned in to the funeral even though it was 3 AM EST.”
“Southern white men forced Black women to undergo painful surgery to increase their own sexual pleasure.”
“She dismissed the claims made by Rogers.”
“Among the waste paper, I found photographs of a younger Smitherman squatting before a truck that read The Tulsa Star .”
“Enslavers saw slaves as no different from livestock.”
“The usual defense of white women, such as Alexander Hamilton’s wife and sister-in-law, is that they didn’t know what was going on.”
“Traditionally, mainstream critics have viewed Black writers as apprentices of white masters, without a tradition of their own.”
“Gaines, whom Cato despises.”