“The human race comes from Africa, but inhumanity originated in Europe.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic… — Henry Charles Carey 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
Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of… — Benedict Cumberbatch 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
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
In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo… — George Grey 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
The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition.… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Wait wait wait. He isn't glad he's here because he has a successful career, or lives in the 'land of the free',… — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because of all our presidents, Barack Obama is the one most likely to be descended from a slave trader, since Kenya had… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Britain's historic decision to ban the international slave trade in the early nineteenth century entailed a large and long-run political and military… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who… — Scott Sauls 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
“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
“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
BEHIND THIS MASK IV ALWAYS KNOWN WHO I AM IM NOT FRONTIN PLAYIN OR TELLIN LIES THE LORD BLESSED ME WITH NOTHING… — D Pryde 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
“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 Compromise of 1850 was authored by the legendary Whig politician Henry Clay. In addition to admitting California to the Union as… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“By 1750, Rhode Island was recognized as the nation’s most active trading center for slaves.7 In 1774, Newport was declared the most… — Cynthia Mestad Johnson Copy Share Image
“Development means a capacity for self-sustaining growth. It means that an economy must register advances which in turn will promote further progress.… — Walter Rodney 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
Great, America Great The god of all nations Lord of all states Voice of the voiceless Strength of the weak Eyes of… — Ezekiel Peace Igbodo (aka Copy Share Image
The evil of slave trade can try to prove that God is not fair,but trust me He is there and He is… — Peter Marley 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
“In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in… — Manu Herbstein 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
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
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
![“So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.” quote by William Wilberforce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c6/william-wilberforce-8564_abolition_so-enormous-so-dreadful-so-irremediable_2916519.jpg)
![“The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for being abused in such a horrific way. I lost it a lot of times watching that film, particularly when seeing the grace of the man when he finally makes it back home aged, changed, forever…” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c06/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_absence_the-story-in-12-years-a-slave-serves-as_2982882.jpg)
