" Because I think we forget something about slavery: There was an enormous amount of sexual license. People talk about, well, the money; the economy; the this…But you realize if you own a human being, you really own them. You can get them—boys, girls—to do anything you say, on pain of death. That’s what it means to own a human being. "

― Toni Morrison , Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)