America Quote by Edward Ball

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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

— Paul Mooney

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

It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is…

— Kevin Bales

Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a…

— Kevin Bales

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.

— Robert Toombs

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

— Chrystia Freeland

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

— Edward Ball

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

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what…

— Kevin Bales

Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America. Before them…

— Lorne Greene

“Americans have found it particularly difficult to come to terms with our “slave origins,” perhaps because the national history of the United States makes…

— Gavin Wright