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
“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
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
. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave… — Robert Purvis 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
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
Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived,… — Ana Castillo 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
“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
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
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
![“This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . . . In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b5/christopher-hitchens-117_abolition_this-huge-and-terrible-industry-the-slav_2271791.jpg)
