Slavery Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“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

[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

— Ezola B. Foster

“There were African slaves in China from at least the seventh century CE, and, Wolf reports, “by 1119 most of the wealthy people of…

— David Christian

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other…

— Madison Smartt Bell

The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“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

“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

“Arabs invaded northern Africa in the seventh century, sending black African slaves to Asia and Arab countries. In the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, which…

— Perry Stone

“Aristotle argued that slaves have a ‘slavish nature’ whereas free people have a ‘free nature’. Their status in society is merely a reflection of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

They are hare-brain'd slaves.

— William Shakespeare

Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived…

— Gerry Spence

“I’d like to run away, to flee from what I know, from what is mine, from what I love. I want to set off,…

— Fernando Pessoa