“The human race comes from Africa, but inhumanity originated in Europe.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know. — Jamaica Kincaid 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
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
“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
“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
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
There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa… — Lisa Kristine 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 word corruption does not arouse the moral revulsion that it should. We think of it as more a nuisance than a… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder… — Lysander Spooner 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
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
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
“The slave trade was not controlled by any state or government. It was a purely economic enterprise, organised and financed by the… — Yuval Noah Harari 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 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
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
“While in England the profits of the slave trade helped to enrich those who opposed absolutism, in Africa they helped to create… — Daron Acemoğlu 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
“1. Declaration of Intent: Hand lifting to the sky The first step is the collective declaration of intent to reestablish Kintuadi between… — Dom Pedro V 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
