Columbus Quote by James W. Loewen

“Most of the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were purchased, rather than captured, by Europeans.”

— Thomas Sowell

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

— Louise Erdrich

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

— Henry David Thoreau

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

— Kate Beckinsale

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to…

— John Henrik Clarke

“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

“Columbus was not the first person to discover America, but the last.”

— Pedro Domingos

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty…

— John Woolman

“Columbus sent home shiploads of Indians to be sold as slaves, but the theologians protested, the Queen's conscience rebelled, and enslavement of the Indians…

— J.H. Elliott

“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

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

— Edward Ball

In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla…

— Wernher von Braun