Best slavery & slave-trade Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.”

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Author:Ross Kemp

“The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.”

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Author:Chinua Achebe

“. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!”

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Author:Robert Purvis

“Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.”

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Author:Ibn Warraq

“There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.”

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Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it.”

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Author:Bryan Stevenson

“Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very insulting to black Dutch people. It's shocking to me that it still exists, but I think it's about the lack of knowledge and education regarding the roots of the character in the slave trade.”

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Author:Roger Ross Williams

“The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.”

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Author:Alan Keyes

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”

“In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there is no doubt that coming generations will think that our form of world trade and distribution of the world's benefits were just as inconceivable and inhuman.”

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Author:Erik Dammann

“The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.”

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Author:George Mason

“If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone... we must be compassionate!”

“There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more infamous practice than slavery in the ancient world - was initiated, carried on and defended by Christian men in Christian countries.”

“The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the Atlantic slave trade and its consequences on three continents. This book is full of fresh ideas and astounding detail; it is at once great storytelling, punctuated with real people and voices, and an unblinking analysis of numerous great questions and paradoxes about the power of slavery in creating the Atlantic world over four centuries.”

“We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.”

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Author:Caleb Cushing

“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.”

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Book:The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

“No knowledge about self is self-slavery!”

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Book:Six Words Inspiration

Source: Six Words Inspiration

“I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.”

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Book:The Book of Negroes

Source: The Book of Negroes

“I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.”

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Book:The Book of Negroes

Source: The Book of Negroes

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