Edward Gibbon Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794
Birthday: April 27
Death: January 16
Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains: and this constant emigration, which, in the space of two centuries, might have furnished armies to overrun the globe, accuses the guilt of Europe and the weakness of Africa.
topic: Country, Army, Europe, Emigration, Native Country
