Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.
Timothy J. KellerTags: bible christian slavery abolition slave-trade
Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition. I would not have opposed the second policy because of my objections to the first; rather it seems to me that the second policy was morally necessitated by its predecessor.)
Christopher HitchensTags: politics morality africa united-states imperialism caribbean iraq-war abolition britain british-empire slave-trade american-imperialism anti-americanism
Even a goat got to be a goat."
Esperança's comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade.
Tags: historical-fiction paranormal voodoo slave-trade
That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and suicide: death itself. For before the white men came to Guinea to strip-mine field hands. ... black people did not die ... the decedent ... took up residence in an afterworld that was in many ways indistinguishable from his former estate.
David BradleyTags: death slavery race slave-trade race-america
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