Slavery-and-human-trafficking Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

“By the time the slave trade ended, the Caribbean had taken an estimated 50 percent of the roughly fifteen million African slaves transported to…

— Christopher Lascelles

“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

“The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound to be…

— Walter Rodney

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

— Thomas Sowell

“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.”

— Edward E. Baptist

“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

“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 16th to the 19th centuries a total of 10.7 million slaves survived the Atlantic crossing from Africa to the Americas, and (according…

— Peter Furtado

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

“In addition, the most reliable and recent studies of African tribal culture demonstrated that slavery was a long-standing custom among the Africans themselves, so…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“Moreover, the industrial revolution in the United States, as in most of Europe, depended significantly upon a slave trade that involved elaborate mechanisms for…

— Mark Lewis Taylor