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“One of the things that is constantly questioned is profitability. The thinking is mostly: the slave trade is so strange, you only drive it if you earn a lot from it. While, for example, an awful lot of slaves already died of infectious diseases while travelling across the Atlantic. I calculated that the Dutch slave trade was only an estimated 0.005 per cent of national income. So that is not much. Moreover, the Dutch slave trade is the only one that ceased to exist for economic reasons.”

SlaverySlave TradeDutch SlaveryAtlantic Slavery
Book:De geschiedenis van de Nederlandse slavernij in een notendop
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“Do you know the city of Palmyra?' 'No.' 'Once it was a major city of the world. A place of temples to the sun and moon and of great archways curving against the desert sky. A place of trade, where all races lived as one. Then it fell as all civilisations can sem to fall. It was destroyed, its people were put to death.' 'That's terrible.' 'The destroyers were the Romans, those thought to be the great civilisers of the ancient world.”

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Book:Island
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