Slave Quote by Thomas Piketty

“An economy built on slave labor is vulnerable in two ways. One, availability of forced labor discourages technical innovation. The very wealthy [Roman]empire experienced…

— Norman F. Cantor

It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is…

— Kevin Bales

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“$1,200, That was the price of a man in those days. Now you can call him black, or you can call him a slave,…

— Jay Grewal

“It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end…

— Adam Smith

Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which…

— John Sergeant Wise

To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so…

— Pope Leo XIII

“Under certain circumstances slavery has some obvious advantages. In the cultivation of crops like sugar, cotton and tobacco, where the cost of production is…

— Eric Williams

“We also understand, therefore, that wages and private property are identical. Indeed, where the product, as the object of labor, pays for labor itself,…

— Karl Marx

If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system…

— Orestes Brownson

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as…

— Thomas Clarkson

“It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in…

— Thomas Sowell