Achievement Quote by Nick Boles

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as…

— William H. Seward

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued…

— Henry Louis Gates

Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that.

— Freddie Gibbs

“The world dominance of Great Britain enabled it to impose its anti-slavery edicts on many other sovereign nations.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Americans have found it particularly difficult to come to terms with our “slave origins,” perhaps because the national history of the United States makes…

— Gavin Wright

Britain beat us to the abolition of slavery; the Isle of Man, New Zealand, and Finland all decided to give women the vote well…

— Bari Weiss

Every human on the planet is descended from both slaves and slave owners. What makes Britain unusual is not that we engaged in the…

— Daniel Hannan

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Britain's historic decision to ban the international slave trade in the early nineteenth century entailed a large and long-run political and military commitment in…

— Thomas Sowell

“It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon the bench…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

One of the reasons people voted to leave the E.U. is so that we could have the freedom to strike trade deals with countries…

— Priti Patel