About Quote by Malachi Kirby

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

— Mutabaruka

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

— Edward Ball

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

— Jefferson Davis

My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up in the…

— Michelle Singletary

“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

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

“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

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed…

— Angela Davis

The history of slavery and the complication of slavery is that it is an international concept. It is something that affected people who were…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it…

— Lupita Nyong'o

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's…

— Cheo Hodari Coker