Impressive Quote by Bob Edwards

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across…

— Anonymous

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

— Paul Mooney

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

— Sherley Anne Williams

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that's a whole…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

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

“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It…

— Clint Smith

But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived slavery because…

— Jurnee Smollett

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

— Louie Giglio

If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate…

— Napoleon Hill

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and…

— Alex Haley