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People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade. — Ross Kemp

we rescue our tears from the sea
secure them by writ — M. NourbeSe Philip

In the end, Edwards wrestled with slavery, defending the institution within the colonies but also calling for the end of the Atlantic slave trade. — Richard A. Bailey

The real reason I love Bamburgh is that it's the only place in the world where I ever truly relax. — Kevin Whately

Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish. — David Livingstone

at the height of the British slave trade, in the 1790s, one large slave vessel left England for Africa every other day. — Bernard Bailyn

they ask for water we give them sea
they ask for bread we give them sea
they ask for life we give them only the sea — M. NourbeSe Philip

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade! — Benjamin Franklin

People with dimple have a divine role in this universe: smile! — Toba Beta

You're my prey tonight. — Carla H. Krueger

I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it. — Lawrence Hill

Sugar gave rise to the slave trade; now sugar has enslaved us. — Jeff O'Connell

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade. — John Wesley

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know. — Jamaica Kincaid

I just wanted to be a part of the band. Actually, that's what inspired me. — Jam Master Jay

She is intent on pleasing the men that frighten her. — Carla H. Krueger

You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator? — Stewart Stafford

to go to bed, and that's when I saw him there, — Peter Swanson

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean. — Syd Barrett

That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future. — Lawrence Hill

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I can love what is broken. — Carla H. Krueger

It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war. — Denis Johnson

No knowledge about self is self-slavery! — Israelmore Ayivor

Welcome home. Now leave me alone. — Trish Doller

God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners. — William Wilberforce

I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself. — Lawrence Hill