Business Quote by John Sergeant Wise

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But…

— Chuck D

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and…

— Solomon Northup

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and…

— Alex Haley

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

— Edmund Burke

Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry...

— Ned Sublette

I am a firm believer in slavery.

— Brigham Young

“slavery was an economic institution of the first importance. It had been the basis of Greek economy and had built up the Roman Empire.…

— Eric Williams

“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was the key…

— Andrew P. Napolitano

“THE FIRM POLITICAL and scientific support for slavery made it all the more difficult for the abolitionists to change the minds of the consumers…

— Ibram X. Kendi

Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life

— Frederick Douglass

“It is easier for people to accept slavery if they realize that they actually have paid for it. - On Slavery.”

— Lamine Pearlheart

“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