...and of the beginnings of the modern organization of industry. In the midst of this advance and uplift this slave trade and slavery spread more human misery,...inexcusable and despicable blot on modern human history. The Portuguese built the first slave-trading fort at Elmina, on the Gold Coast, in 1482, and extended...

...established the tradition of classifying inferiors by race. He condemned slavery, because in his opinion it spread more human misery, inculcated more disrespect...inexcusable and despicable blot on modern human history. Whether analyzing slavery in ancient societies or in the nineteenth-century South, Du Bois's tone was...

...and of the beginnings of the modem organization of industry. In the midst of this advance and uplift this slave trade and slavery spread more human misery,...callousness to suffering, and more petty, cruel, human hatted than can well be calculated. We may excuse and palliate it, and write history so as to let men...