Mauritania officially abolished slavery in 1980, though…

He who loves money must labor. Mauritania.

— African Proverb

“Although definitive numbers are difficult to find, the Global Slavery Index estimates that at least a hundred and forty thousand people are enslaved in…

— Anonymous

“In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln convinced Congress to pass the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery throughout the nation. 4)”

— Mary Pope Osborne

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery other than in prisons - but it was a lie that you regained your freedom…

— Susan Burton

“The men and women of England who abolished slavery, created the educational system, or gave women the vote were not acting on the hypotheses…

— Geoffrey Vickers

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of…

— Angela Davis

“The prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Americans have found it particularly difficult to come to terms with our “slave origins,” perhaps because the national history of the United States makes…

— Gavin Wright

“Convicts had no meaningful legal rights at this time and no effective redress. They were understood, quite literally, to be slaves of the state.…

— Michelle Alexander

All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of consent," and…

— Lysander Spooner

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as…

— William H. Seward

Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though…

— Thomas Sowell

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of…

— Thomas Sowell

The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that…

— Thomas Sowell