I wonder why uncivilized Europeans conducted slave trade!see now they are all dead. — Peter Marley Copy Share Image
We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade. — Anand Giridharadas 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. — 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
“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
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
“Even a goat got to be a goat." Esperança's comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade.” — Tanja Kobasic 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
What has been imposed on religion is not religion itself but the custom of those who have been converted to it. I… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“If you go to the craft market you will see them everywhere. They represent the mix of cultures and races here in… — Sandra Rodriguez Barron Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
“When people speak of great men, they think of men like Napoleon - men of violence. Rarely do they think of peaceful… — Charles Fox Copy Share Image
[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and… — James Otis Copy Share Image
“The movement to join Washington had a substantial following in the 1850s, centred in Montreal...It faced considerable resistance, though - in part… — Doug Saunders 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
“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In answer to 'But violence hasn't solved anything!' The hell it hasn't. The application of violence - of killing and a willingness… — Markham Shaw Pyle 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
“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
“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
“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
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![“[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler]… It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's…” quote by James Otis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fb/james-otis-16854_business_slave-trade-is-the-most-shocking-violati_2681531.jpg)
![“[...] 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/quotes/i/d4f/bernard-lewis-11653_slave-trade_the-governor-of-the-hijaz-sent-an-order_1731904.jpg)
