Slave Trade

Famous quotes containing the words slave and/or trade:

“England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave Coast, all front on this private sea; but no bark from them has ventured out of sight of land, though it is without doubt the direct way to India.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.”
—W.R. (William Ralph)