American slavery Quote by Spike Lee

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

— Edward Ball

Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of decency and…

— Amber Rudd

“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

It is important to honor and remember the millions of individuals who suffered the horrors of slavery.

— Al N. Green

“slavery was a worldwide institution, entrenched on every inhabited continent, subjugating people of every color, language, and religion,”

— Thomas Sowell

Modern day slavery is the great tragedy of our time and the U.S. cannot turn a blind eye to it on our soil or…

— Mark Meadows

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

— Dinesh D'Souza

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

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

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful…

— Penny Mordaunt

“Slavery is not a horror safely confined to the past; it continues to exist throughout the world, even in developed countries like France and…

— Kevin Bales

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery…

— Annette Gordon-Reed