Human Trafficking Quotes
Vladimir Lenin
William the Conqueror. Note that it was OK to trade, buy and sell slaves and indentured servants as long as foreigners didn’t get the benefit of them.
As late as 2005 Saudi Arabia was officially listed by the State Department as trafficking in women for sexual exploitation and domestic servitude.
The slavery issue was the dominant issue in pre-Civil War America. It even drove foreign policy.
Nott, a Southerner who owned slaves, was not only an apologist for slavery as this quotation illustrates, but also wrote on his theories of race. Nott was one of the writers about race that Darwin singled out as being completely wrong in 1871: The Descent of Man.
Under the Mexican law which governed Texas at the time, slavery had been much curtailed. Austin and many others wished to expand it “to permit families to bring the necessary and indispensable house servants and laborers”
This is the Biblical passage that the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison claimed made every slave owner or seller guilty of a capital crime.