An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it. - James A. Michener

when the law of 1636 was passed, Barbados had few slaves and mostly white indentured workers in a total population of only six thousand. But by 1649, there were thirty thousand slaves on the island as against almost the same number of whites, so that the slaves judged they had a chance for victory.

honor included not only physical and moral courage but also a daring commitment to central beliefs,

Most important fact of war? Keep your army in existence. Lose the battle, but keep your eye on winning the war.” But