Category Archives: 1600s

[T]he pernicious and abominable abuse of selling slaves was yet continued … and requiring us to use our power to remedy the said abuse; which, notwithstanding we saw very little hope of accomplishing, by reason that the trade of this country lay wholly in slaves and ivory. ~ Alderano Cybo (1683)

[Slavery is] an oppression on the mind. ~ William Edmundson (1676)