The Slave Trade

 

 

 
“The effects of the New England slave trade were momentous. It was one of the foundations of New England 's economic structure; it created a wealthy class of slave-trading merchants, while the profits derived from this commerce stimulated cultural development and philanthropy.”  

 Lorenzo Johnston Greene, The Negro in Colonial New England, 1620-1776, p.319.

 
"Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks."
 
Thomas Sowell, a black sociologist, author and columnist