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Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep…

— Bryan Stevenson

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

— Dinesh D'Souza

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost,…

— Henry Charles Carey

Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which…

— John Sergeant Wise

In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as…

— Abraham Lincoln

“How long, exactly, have you been involved in the slave trade?” It couldn’t have been long. Adarlan had only started capturing and selling slaves…

— Sarah J. Maas

Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry...

— Ned Sublette

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my…

— George Grey

There's a really great documentary called 'Many Rivers,' which documents the totality of slavery from its inception, and then it gives you a little…

— Aldis Hodge

In the 1850s, as the numbers of Americans who were not invested in the slave system grew, the South's leaders felt they had to…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“The slave trade was not controlled by any state or government. It was a purely economic enterprise, organised and financed by the free market…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“There's no such thing as slave traders, get your language straight, you idiots - they were human traffickers, not traders, you trade in commodity,…

— Abhijit Naskar