Transatlantic 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)

    “Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)