Coal miners Quote by J.D. Vance

“The Modern Slavery called ...Work .”

— Makis Philosofukciss

“Employment is the biggest form of slavery”

— Sunday Adelaja

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which…

— John C. Calhoun

“Moreover, the industrial revolution in the United States, as in most of Europe, depended significantly upon a slave trade that involved elaborate mechanisms for…

— Mark Lewis Taylor

“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

“Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered…

— Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

“By 1860, two of every three of the relatively few Americans whose wealth surpassed $100,000 lived below the Mason-Dixon Line. New York at that…

— Nancy MacLean

“Nineteenth century industrial society had created a new class of slaves,”

— F. H. Buckley

“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

Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done…

— G. Edward Griffin

“by the 1840s the North had built a complex, industrialized economy on the backs of enslaved people and their highly profitable cotton labor. Yet,…

— Edward E. Baptist

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…

— Abraham Lincoln