Ira Berlin Quotes

• [B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.

  Ira Berlin

  Reality, Opposites, History

  Ira Berlin (2009). “Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.

  Ira Berlin

  Drama, Slavery, Abduction

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