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

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

— 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

Every human on the planet is descended from both slaves and slave owners. What makes Britain unusual is not that we engaged in the…

— Daniel Hannan

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

— Mikhail Bakunin

“The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

“the British became the world's largest slaveholders in their Western Hemisphere colonies in the Caribbean.”

— Thomas Sowell

The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads…

— Anthony Daniels

“The greatest abuse of all-the slave trade-was ended as a direct result of the political influence of evangelical Christians in Britain, who were connected…

— Thomas Sowell

“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

“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

The British had this idea they were heroes in the anti-slavery movement but they also were beneficiaries of the slavery trade. It was a…

— Paterson Joseph