Cotton Quote by Alex Haley

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and…

— Solomon Northup

Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.

— Lupita Nyong'o

I dont think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument…

— John Brown

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument…

— John Brown

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

— Paul Mooney

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

— Mo Ibrahim

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

— Catherine Wilson

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom…

— Frederick Douglass

Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are…

— Colson Whitehead

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful…

— Penny Mordaunt

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

— Edmund Burke

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that…

— John Sergeant Wise