Nobody wanted to take me because probably they knew what a slave will be doing, so they need somebody with physical ability, and I was a young child.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: simon_deng

Slave owners were often illiterate and so, unlike in America, did not keep diaries.

ECONOMIST: A dispute over land becomes an argument about race

Our central bank is--as are many economists--still slave to the theory, the so-called Phillips Curve, that there is a connection between prosperity and inflation.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

So integral to the British economy was the slave business that there were few men and institutions of wealth who did not want to invest in it, from the royal family and the Church of England downwards.

ECONOMIST: Slavery