Transatlantic Slave Trade

Famous quotes containing the words slave and/or trade:

    “Chippenhook was the home of Judge Theophilus Harrington, known for his trenchant reply to an irate slave-owner in a runaway slave case. Judge Harrington declared that the owner’s claim to the slave was defective. The owner indignantly demanded to know what was lacking in his legally sound claim. The Judge exploded, ‘A bill of sale, sir, from God Almighty!’”
    —For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “The last job I had, I had to take it out in trade and this is no butcher shop—not yet, anyhow!”
    —Robert Pirosh, U.S. screenwriter, George Seaton, George Oppenheimer, and Sam Wood. Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx)