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I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its…

— Tony Blair

Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other…

— Frederick Douglass

In the beginning this was just an idea. Then it was a short story. Then it was a script. Each step was pretty exciting…

— Steven C. Harper

The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.

— Edward Ball

As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.

— Kailash Satyarthi

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

— Robert Dale Owen

Everyone is happy for the history of slavery to be investigated so long as the investigation examines the parts in which we look good.

— David Olusoga

The story of slavery is everybody's story. It is the story about how we're all shaped by, regardless of race, regardless of how long…

— Lonnie Bunch

We must work together, across nations and sectors. Only then will we consign the hideous crime of slavery to the history books.

— Penny Mordaunt

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and…

— Bryan Stevenson

A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.

— Sherley Anne Williams

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery…

— Annette Gordon-Reed