Famous quotes containing the words slaves and/or brought:
“No, I’m Spartacus. You come to free the slaves or something?”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)