Abolishing slavery Quote by Ibn Warraq

Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites…

— Thomas Sowell

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

— Dinesh D'Souza

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“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

“After Egypt, Afrocentrists teach children about the glorious West African emperors, the vast lands they ruled, the civilization they achieved; not, however, about the…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

— Mutabaruka

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…

— William Wilberforce

After the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the great independent…

— John Henrik Clarke

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be?…

— August Wilson

“Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the Civil War. The western history of our…

— William Silverman

“It is a mistaken opinion that prevails in some quarters that the slave does not understand the term - does not comprehend the idea…

— Solomon Northup

Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American…

— David Swanson