Abolish Quote by George Grey

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

— Ross Kemp

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

— Amiri Baraka

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade…

— Henry Charles Carey

More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even here, in…

— Josh Hawley

“Slaves were among the main commodities traded during this era, which preceded the era of European territorial conquests in sub-Saharan Africa.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Britain's historic decision to ban the international slave trade in the early nineteenth century entailed a large and long-run political and military commitment in…

— Thomas Sowell

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

“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

“Expansion is a necessity of slave societies; the slave power requires ever fresh conquests.17 “It is more profitable,” wrote Merivale, “to cultivate a fresh…

— Eric Williams

“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

Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one…

— Harriet Tubman

“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