“ Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain th… Christopher Hitchens
“ On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or… Walter Rodney
“ That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and suicide: death itself. For before the white men came to Guinea to strip-… David Bradley
“ 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… Timothy J. Keller
“ Development means a capacity for self-sustaining growth. It means that an economy must register advances which in turn will promote further progress. The loss of industry and skill in Africa was extre… Walter Rodney
“ Even a goat got to be a goat." Esperança's comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade. Tanja Kobasic
“ The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound to be low, because there were so many people at the time who had a vested… Walter Rodney
“ I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself. Lawrence Hill
“ That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future. Lawrence Hill
“ I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it. Lawrence Hill
“ Many guilty consciences have been created by the slave trade. Europeans know that they carried on the slave trade, and Africans are aware that the trade would have been impossible if certain Africans… Walter Rodney
