Transatlantic Slave Trade

Famous quotes containing the words slave and/or trade:

    “The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain,
    The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord,
    Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred,
    Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored;
    Great nations blossom above,
    A slave bows down to a slave.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick ... the trade union for the nation as a whole.”
    —Edward Heath (b. 1916)