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Their own companies benefited greatly from slave labor.
Even during the 20 th century, neither the indigenous populations nor the African-Brazilian slave descendants had much chance in the economic and social order.
The pieces are largely the loot that Europeans pillaged from Africa during the slave trade and the colonial period.
Scott, a slave, sued for his and his family’s freedom in 1857 – eight years before the US Constitution’s 13th Amendment abolished slavery.
In particular, slavery was allowed in some states, but prohibited in others, and the 1787 compromise to count each slave as three-fifths of a person when determining a state’s population for representation and taxation was fraying.
The end of the Western slave trade did not come because European culture changed, but because the British changed their laws.
In India, vigils making common cause with the Chibok girls were led by Bachpan Bachao Andolan, which every day rescues children from trafficking and slave labor.
The slave trade continued until the 1850's in most of the world, and in some places almost until the end of the 19 th century.
Many have turned to weapons, slave, or gold trafficking; some are demanding independence.
Were it not for the Electoral College, included in the Constitution at the insistence of the less populous slave states, Al Gore would have become president in 2000, and Hillary Clinton in 2016.
In the late Roman Empire, only a wealthy aristocrat could have purchased a nomenclator – a slave tasked with memorizing names and faces, and reminding the aristocrat of them when social occasions demanded it.
Satyarthi’s Global March Against Child Labor has rescued thousands of boys and girls, as young as eight, working as slave laborers in India’s back streets and sweatshops.
Queen Anna Nzinga, the monarch of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms in what is now Angola, spent decades fighting to protect her people from the Portuguese and their expanding slave trade.
Haiti was the second country, after the US, to win its independence from Europe, following a slave rebellion in 1804.
South Korea initiated talks with the Japanese government only recently on retrieving the remains of Korean slave workers.
Muslims wounded by his invocation in that interview of the subservient black slave in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s US Civil War-era novel should accept his deepest apologies.
However sad and painful it is to admit, a fleet of slave ships docking on Africa’s shores today would be overrun by willing would-be deportees.
At the turn of the millennium, a meeting of African church leaders convened on the Senegalese island of Gorée to urge Africans to assess their share of responsibility for the slave trade.
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a former slave state, successfully orchestrated Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the first slave state to secede in 1860, was Kavanaugh’s most aggressive promoter on the Senate Judiciary Committee, describing sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh as “the most unethical sham since I’ve been in politics.”
But this recognition does not exonerate Africa's "kinglets," who handed their subjects over to the slave traders.
Recently, a congregation of African church leaders convened in the Senegalese island of Gorée and urged their people to assess their share of responsibility for the slave trade.
I had spent six years as a slave to a Chinese man when, in 2004, the Chinese authorities discovered me and sent me to a detention center in Tumen, on the border, with several other North Korean women.
He graduated from a military academy in Manchuria, where Kishi had once ruled over an industrial empire that was built on Chinese slave labor.
They will then be asked to take decisive action on child rape in Iraq, the bombing of schools in Syria, the abduction of girls in Nigeria, the abduction of boys as child soldiers in South Sudan, and thousands of children trafficked into forced marriage and slave labor from the world’s conflict zones.
It was first introduced in an 1848 law that aimed to punish citizens still involved in the slave trade; but that law was never enforced.
Video footage of alleged slave auctions in Libya underscored the continuing chaos there amid the complete breakdown of the Libyan state.
After slavery ended, the once beautiful island could barely sustain the former slave populations because the soils were exhausted by overuse and erosion.
America refused to recognize Haiti as an independent country until the 1860s, nearly six decades after Haiti’s slave rebellion successfully ended French colonial rule.
The slave is not recognized as fully human, or as an equal of the master, and is not free.
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