Carrying Quote by William Wilberforce

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

— 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

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used to; slavery…

— Femi Kuti

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

— Jefferson Davis

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New…

— Henry Louis Gates

“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

“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

“Long before the Europeans arrived in Africa, the blacks were enslaving each other. They still do,” said Valmorain. “Just as whites are enslaving each…

— Isabel Allende

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much…

— Alexander Herzen

“Slavery is not a horror safely confined to the past; it continues to exist throughout the world, even in developed countries like France and…

— Kevin Bales