Agents Quote by Henry Louis Gates

What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its…

— William Wilberforce

“BRIEF HISTORY OF TRADE BETWEEN AFRICA AND EUROPE Hereditary slavery had been around since the times of Greece and Rome and was nothing new.…

— Eduardo Galeano

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

— Thomas Sowell

Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for…

— Marcus Garvey

I wonder why uncivilized Europeans conducted slave trade!see now they are all dead.

— Peter Marley

“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

It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of the people…

— Vandana Shiva

“As the international economist Ronald Findlay argues, “slavery was an integral part of a complex intercontinental system of trade in goods and factors within…

— Gavin Wright

“While in England the profits of the slave trade helped to enrich those who opposed absolutism, in Africa they helped to create and strengthen…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“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