“Not to know is bad. Not to wish to know is worse.”
~ Nigerian Proverb
But even those southerners who were made uneasy by slavery were not sure that anything could be done about it. Washington, who wanted to manumit his slaves, had a great deal of difficulty finding ways to set them free without throwing them out into a world that made no place for them. Southerners, by and large, believed that if slavery was abolished, their economy would collapse. Moreover they had subtle and complex emotional ties to slavery. Not only those who owned slaves but those who did not could get from slavery a host of psychic rewards−a sense of superiority over other humans, the wielding of command, which many of them would not otherwise enjoy, and for males, an endless supply of irresponsible sex…pg. 188 Decision in Philadelphia by Collier 1986
“Children need your presence more than your presents.”
~Jesse Jackson
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