Walter Johnson

“My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”
― Walter Johnson, Steve Jobs: In His Own Words - 100 Quotes from Steve Jobs

“Before they entered the slave market or inspected a slave, many slaveholders had well-developed ideas about what they would find there. these ideas had less to do with the real people they would meet in the market, however, than they did with the slaveholder’s themselves, about the type of people they would become by buying slaves. As they talked about and wrote about buying slaves, slaveholders mapped a world made of slavery. They dreamed of people arrayed in meaningful order by their value as property, of fields full of productive hands and a slave quarter that reproduced itself, of well ordered households and of mansions where services were swift and polished. They dreamed of beating and healing and sleeping with slaves; sometimes they even dreamed that their slaves would love them. They imagined who they could be by thinking about whom they could buy.”
― Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market