"One of the things that is constantly questioned is profitability. The thinking is mostly: the slave trade is so stran…"

"I continue to marvel at this. We got incredibly angry when the city of Palmyra, Syria, was destroyed by IS because th…"

"A give-and-take situation was created between the two sides so that that slavery could continue to exist."

"You also have to realise that they would not have been free either if they had stayed in Africa. They had already bee…"

"There is also emotional literature about the occupation period. That war was not cheerful in the Netherlands, but in …"

"Incidentally, it was Europeans living in Europe who wanted to abolish the slave trade. They wanted to end it all over…"

"That it was precisely productive forces that left is not at all unique. It happens in all migrations. If you look at …"

"Slavery is a common thing. We should not be ashamed of that at all. What we should try to explain is why there was no…"

"I think it is important that when water boils at 100 degrees, whether someone is white or black, that someone sees th…"

"My argument in my book is that except for the slave revolt in Haiti, slave revolts did not contribute to slave libera…"