# Quote — C L R James, The Black Jacobins

> Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.

- Author: [C L R James](https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-l-r-james.md)
- Book: [The Black Jacobins](https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-l-r-james/the-black-jacobins.md)
- Page: 334
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._L._R._James#The_Black_Jacobins_(1938)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-l-r-james/the-black-jacobins/dissimulation-is-the

## More from this book

> If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

p. 307 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-l-r-james/the-black-jacobins/if-you-are.md)

> Compared with what their masters had done to them in cold blood, what [the slaves] did was negligible, and they were spurred on by the ferocity with which the whites in Le Cap treated all slave prisoners who fell into their hands.

p. 89 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-l-r-james/the-black-jacobins/compared-with-what.md)

> From their French masters, [the slaves] had known rape, torture, degradation, and, at the slightest provocation, death. They returned in kind. For two centuries the higher civilization had shown them that power was used for wreaking your will on those whom you controlled. Now that they held power they did as they had been taught.

p. 88 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-l-r-james/the-black-jacobins/from-their-french.md)