We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
I wonder why uncivilized Europeans conducted slave trade!see now they are all dead. — Peter Marley Copy Share Image
“The human race comes from Africa, but inhumanity originated in Europe.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade. — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as slave traders, get your language straight, you idiots - they were human traffickers, not traders, you trade… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.” — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The ending of the slave trade was one of many European policies imposed upon Africa by the conquerors.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality). — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course,… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
In 1807, Britain led the way in abolishing the global slave trade. In 2015, Theresa May built on that historic achievement with… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“By the time the slave trade ended, the Caribbean had taken an estimated 50 percent of the roughly fifteen million African slaves… — Christopher Lascelles Copy Share Image
“all human life is sacred, I wonder why the mass killings of Africans is not publicized and taught in schools like the… — Alemayehu Mekonnen Copy Share Image
Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
“But she couldn’t help glancing at the rug before the desk—a movement Arobynn either noted or expected. “A new rug,” he said,… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“It was not that “slave trade profits” flowed through some fiendish channels into the dark satanic mills. But the burgeoning Atlantic trade… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“How long, exactly, have you been involved in the slave trade?” It couldn’t have been long. Adarlan had only started capturing and… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and… — David Bradley Copy Share Image
“The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Many guilty consciences have been created by the slave trade. Europeans know that they carried on the slave trade, and Africans are… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
“In the American colonies, the first laborers were European indentured servants. When African laborers were forcibly brought to Virginia beginning in 1619,… — Alan H. Goodman Copy Share Image
“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Palo Mayombe is perhaps best known for its display of human skulls in iron cauldrons and accompanied by necromantic practices that contribute… — Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold Copy Share Image
“On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
“The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather than to generate, wealth and income. …[T]his was achieved under… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“It may be underfunded and at times mismanaged, but the [Endangered Species] Act is an unprecedented attempt to delegate human-caused extinction to… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image