Quote by Thomas Sowell

“Slaves were among the main commodities traded during this era, which preceded the era of European territorial conquests in sub-Saharan Africa.”

— Thomas Sowell

After the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the great independent…

— John Henrik Clarke

“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

For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped…

— Fernand Braudel

“Arabs invaded northern Africa in the seventh century, sending black African slaves to Asia and Arab countries. In the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, which…

— Perry Stone

The Arabs are deep in the slave trade right now.

— John Henrik Clarke

“The missionaries find it opportune to remind the masses that long before the advent of European colonialism the great African empires were disrupted by…

— Frantz Fanon

“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

“All the great Semitic migrations had their starting-place in Arabia.”

— James John Courtenay

“The Islamic jihads of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created new Moslem states in West Africa, which in turn promoted enslavement on a larger…

— Thomas Sowell

“The coast of what is now Nigeria became known as "the slave coast," just as the coast of neighboring Ghana to the west was…

— Thomas Sowell

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses…

— Henry Morton Stanley