Life Quote by Eric Williams

“Slave ships landed more than 1.5 million African captives on British Caribbean islands (primarily Jamaica and Barbados) by the late 1700s and had brought…

— Edward E. Baptist

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

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

“By the time the slave trade ended, the Caribbean had taken an estimated 50 percent of the roughly fifteen million African slaves transported to…

— Christopher Lascelles

“Here, then, is the origin of Negro slavery. The reason was economic, not racial; it had to do not with the color of the…

— Eric Williams

“From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per cent of them worked on…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The negro population grew by leaps and bounds, until on the eve of the Revolution it amounted to more than half a million. In…

— Charles A. Beard

“Negro slavery, thus, had nothing to do with climate. Its origin can be expressed in three words: in the Caribbean, Sugar; on the mainland,…

— Eric Williams

“switched to slaves. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per cent of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“By the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Virginia elites had taken the best land for themselves, leaving the former indentured servants land poor…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

“By the time of the Revolution there was in each colony an accumulated body of slave law that did not so much establish slavery…

— Don E. Fehrenbacher

“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was the key…

— Andrew P. Napolitano