The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted,… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of… — George Grey Copy Share Image
When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential… — David Batstone Copy Share Image
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade -… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Evidence has proven that Secretary Mayorkas' sustained and willful betrayal of the public trust makes him an accessory to the poisoning of… — John E. James Copy Share Image
“How many movements began when an aesthetic encounter indelibly changed our past perceptions of the world? It was an abolitionist’s print, not… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“Perhaps an even more remarkable contribution of Britain to the growth of freedom in the world was its leading role in the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
That's our mirror. Every dip, every crash, every bubble that's burst, a testament to our brilliant stupidity. This one gave us the… — Lucy Prebble Copy Share Image
William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“The second answer is that we just need more patience – paradise, the capitalists promise, is right around the corner. True, mistakes… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
“It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“[...] the governor of the Hijaz sent an order to the district governor of Mecca prohibiting the trade in slaves. The district… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who… — Andrew Mwenda Copy Share Image
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
“There is a slave trade still in this country—yes, the real and horrific sex and human trafficking trade run by organised criminal… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave… — Robert Purvis Copy Share Image
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The slave-trade and slavery were the economic basis of the French Revolution. ‘Sad irony of human history,’ comments Jaurès. ‘The fortunes created… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“The lives of the older Da Silvas were empty and sad. They mourned the Slave Trade as a lost Golden Age when… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
I'd gone to Oxford to do graduate studies in the history of the slave trade, but I came across Georgiana's letters, gave… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started… — John Henrik Clarke 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
I have no faith in much organized religion because I think it's by a bunch of hypocrites and practiced by a bunch… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“There are more slaves in the world today (best estimate—27 million) than were extracted from Africa during 400 years of the transatlantic… — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Looking at the numbers, the transatlantic slave trade matches the Holocaust in horror - maybe even without counting subsidiary effects like internal… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their… — Josephine Bakhita Copy Share Image
In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of… — Erik Dammann Copy Share Image
![“[...] the governor of the Hijaz sent an order to the district governor of Mecca prohibiting the trade in slaves. The district governor was instructed to read the order aloud at the Shari a court of Mecca in the presence of the ulema and the sharifs. This took place on October 30, 1855 [...] This…” quote by Bernard Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d4f/bernard-lewis-11653_slave-trade_the-governor-of-the-hijaz-sent-an-order_1731904.jpg)
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