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What happened to those Africans who reached the New World and how the legacy of
slavery
still affects their descendants today is fairly well known.
Most African
slavery
had no deeper reason than legal punishment or intertribal warfare, but the Europeans who preached a universal religion, and who had long ago outlawed enslaving fellow Christians, needed justification for a practice so obviously at odds with their ideals of equality.
Thus,
slavery
in Europe and the Americas acquired a racial basis, making it impossible for slaves and their future descendants to attain equal status in society.
The worst
slavery
issues imaginable are connected to it.
And if you find race-specific medicine surprising, wait until you learn that many doctors in the United States still use an updated version of a diagnostic tool that was developed by a physician during the
slavery
era, a diagnostic tool that is tightly linked to justifications for
slavery.
Cartwright argued in the 1850s that
slavery
was beneficial for black people for medical reasons.
Another that ended
slavery.
He deprived women of the rights that the revolution had given them and even reinstated
slavery
in the French colonies.
That's why sounding the alarm about the impact of racism on health in the United States, the ongoing institutional and interpersonal violence that people of color face, compounded by our tragic legacy of 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow and 60 years of imperfect equality, sounding the alarm about this is central to doing my job right as New York City's Health Commissioner.
It has been 128 years since the last country in the world abolished
slavery
and 53 years since Martin Luther King pronounced his "I Have A Dream" speech.
This iconic diagram was taken from a British slaving manual and later used by abolitionists to show the atrocities of
slavery.
In America, we don't like to talk about slavery, nor do we look at it as a global industry.
Folks think that foreign women kidnapped and sold into sexual
slavery
can be saved by shutting a whole industry down.
And they took the time to point out the many markers that have been placed all over the city to the history of the Confederacy, and the very few that mark the history of
slavery.
Emancipate yourselves from mental
slavery.
It's no surprise that the Twist can be traced back to the 19th century, brought to America from the Congo during
slavery.
We may have division and racism and
slavery
in our past, but we have a common future.
Orwell urged us to protect our language because ultimately our ability to think and communicate clearly is what stands between us and a world where war is peace and freedom is
slavery.
First one: this is a man named John Newton, a British theologian who played a central role in the abolition of
slavery
from the British Empire in the early 1800s.
And amazingly, this man spent decades as a younger man as the captain of a slave ship, and then as an investor in slavery, growing rich from this.
VG: We call the names and rituals of our ancestors into this room today because from them we received a powerful blueprint for survival, strategies and tactics for healing carried across oceans by African women, passed down to generations of Black women in America who used those skills to navigate institutions of
slavery
and state-sponsored discrimination in order that we might stand on this stage.
A divestment in schools, discriminatory housing practices, predatory lending, a crack cocaine epidemic, mass incarceration putting more Black bodies behind bars than were owned at the height of
slavery.
I've been reading a lot about the Civil War and about
slavery.
And so as an artist, what I do with all that emotion, reading these people's stories, not just, "Oh,
slavery
was terrible."
Because at least once a year, on the festival of Passover, we told our story and we taught it to our children and we ate the unleavened bread of affliction and tasted the bitter herbs of
slavery.
No matter how many VR goggles they slap on their faces and whatever fantasy world they go into, they can't externalize the
slavery
and pollution that was caused through the manufacture of the very device.
The Khmer Rouge sought to end
slavery
in Cambodia, yet somehow they turned everyone into slaves to do it.
Human trafficking and
slavery
is a criminal offense.
Ida Bell Wells was born into
slavery
in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 16, 1862, several months before the Emancipation Proclamation released her and her family.
Genocide,
slavery
and patriarchy started in the Americas with Christopher Columbus.
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