Slave Trade Quotes

38 quotes by 31 authors

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light… — Chinua Achebe
Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th… — John Henrik Clarke
In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there… — Erik Dammann
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more… — Margaret E. Knight
Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is...… — Sheryl WuDunn
The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the Atlantic slave trade… — David W. Blight
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . .… — Christopher Hitchens
Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish. — David Livingstone
The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth… — Yehudi Menuhin
And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are… — Lysander Spooner
Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in… — James W. Loewen
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality). — William Wilberforce
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 consequences… — William Wilberforce
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and… — Henry Charles Carey
We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than… — George W. Bush
It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same lack of understanding… — Jane Goodall
There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's… — Kevin Bales
There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire… — Lisa Kristine
Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade! — Benjamin Franklin
William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth… — J I Packer

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