Analogy Quote by Barry Unsworth

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But…

— Chuck D

The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor…

— John Coleman

“As the international economist Ronald Findlay argues, “slavery was an integral part of a complex intercontinental system of trade in goods and factors within…

— Gavin Wright

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

— Paul Mooney

Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that.

— Freddie Gibbs

“American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture; the reduction of the…

— Howard Zinn

Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities…

— Alexander Hamilton

I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the…

— Wendell Berry

The slave states of Western world are an outgrowth of monopolistic capitalism - an economic system which is opposed to the wide distribution of…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued…

— Henry Louis Gates

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…

— William Wilberforce