Quote by Thomas Sowell

“Perhaps an even more remarkable contribution of Britain to the growth of freedom in the world was its leading role in the destruction of…

— Thomas Sowell

“Most of the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were purchased, rather than captured, by Europeans.”

— 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

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

— Thomas Sowell

“Slaves in the Caribbean had their breastfeeding time limited so that they could breed more slaves for their owners.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Slave ships landed more than 1.5 million African captives on British Caribbean islands (primarily Jamaica and Barbados) by the late 1700s and had brought…

— Edward E. Baptist

“Expansion is a necessity of slave societies; the slave power requires ever fresh conquests.17 “It is more profitable,” wrote Merivale, “to cultivate a fresh…

— Eric Williams

“By the time of the Revolution there was in each colony an accumulated body of slave law that did not so much establish slavery…

— Don E. Fehrenbacher

“A country bent on conquest is necessarily a country internally enslaved.”

— Mikhail Bakunin

“Negro slaves, one-twentieth of the population in 1670, were one-fourth in 1730. “Slavery, from being an insignificant factor in the economic life of the…

— Eric Williams

“This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.”

— George Carlin

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

— Benjamin Franklin