Quote by Thomas Sowell

“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

“The ending of the slave trade was one of many European policies imposed upon Africa by the conquerors.”

— Thomas Sowell

What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its…

— William Wilberforce

“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

“The slave trade was not controlled by any state or government. It was a purely economic enterprise, organised and financed by the free market…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“From the flourishing trade center of Zanzibar, whose leading trade items were ivory and African slaves, the Arabs began to conquer parts of coastal…

— Thomas Sowell

“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

“While in England the profits of the slave trade helped to enrich those who opposed absolutism, in Africa they helped to create and strengthen…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“He pointed out that the so-called just wars between Africans were actually instigated by European slave-traders drumming up demand for captives.4 Meanwhile,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were…

— Abdullah Ibrahim

“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

“From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per cent of them worked on…

— Yuval Noah Harari