Business Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“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

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

— Thomas Sowell

“There's no such thing as slave traders, get your language straight, you idiots - they were human traffickers, not traders, you trade in commodity,…

— Abhijit Naskar

“slavery was an economic institution of the first importance. It had been the basis of Greek economy and had built up the Roman Empire.…

— Eric Williams

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

— Thomas Sowell

“The ending of the slave trade was one of many European policies imposed upon Africa by the conquerors.”

— 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

On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could…

— Ned Sublette

“That we were slaves I had known all my life--and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold--but as long…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“There's no such thing as slave traders, get your language straight, you idiots - they were human traffickers, not traders, you trade in commodity,…

— Abhijit Naskar

“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

“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