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Slavery is the systematic exploitation of labour. As a social-economic system, slavery is a legal or informal institution under which a person (called "a slave") is compelled to work for another (sometimes called "the master" or "slave owner"). Evidence of slavery predates written records, and has existed to varying extents, forms and periods in almost all cultures and continents. Slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and are deprived of the... full article at wikipedia

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Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone	Rosalind Shaw
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823	David Brion Davis
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano	Olaudah Equiano
Nothing but Freedom	Eric Foner
The Atlantic Sound	Caryl Phillips
Slavery	Milton Meltzer
White Gold	Giles Milton
From Rebellion to Revolution	Eugene D. Genovese
The world the slaveholders made	Eugene D. Genovese
Slavery and African life	Patrick Manning
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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.	Vincent van Gogh
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.	Andrea Dworkin
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.	Thomas Jefferson
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.	Harriet Beecher Stowe
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.	William Cowper
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.	Miguel de Cervantes
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.	James Fenimore Cooper
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.	Edmund Burke
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.	Abraham Lincoln
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.	Olive Schreiner
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