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This grim dilemma forces Dana to confront the ongoing trauma of slavery and sexual violence against Black women.
They're talking about slavery in 1860.
After the Civil War in the 1800s, Reconstruction failed to deliver the equality that the end of slavery should have heralded, so young people moved to the North and the West to escape discriminatory Jim Crow policies.
Shoutout to the multigenerational, dehumanizing economic institution of American chattel slavery, though.
It's what Bryan Stevenson at the Equal Justice Initiative calls the narrative of racial difference, the story we told ourselves to justify slavery and Jim Crow and mass incarceration and beyond.
Doroshenko’s Ottoman allies ravaged the countryside, carrying off peasants into slavery.
That's probably very akin to slavery.
But during this time, Napoleon Bonaparte had assumed power in France, and made it his mission to restore slavery and French authority throughout the empire.
French attempts to reinstate slavery met fierce resistance, with General Christophe even burning the capital city to prevent military occupation.
But while the king was initially popular among his subjects, his labor mandates were an uncomfortable reminder of the slavery Haitians fought to destroy.
Today, the traces of Christophe’s complicated history can still be found in the crumbling remains of his palaces, and in Haiti’s legacy as the first nation to permanently abolish slavery.
And after a month of arguments they decided to stop slavery, and the industrial revolution started within less than one year.
200 years ago the problem we had to solve was slavery.
Truth was born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree in the late 18th century in Ulster County, New York.
Although New York state had announced the abolition of slavery in 1799, the emancipation act was gradual.
Though she never learned to read or write, Baumfree became known as an electrifying orator, whose speeches drew on Biblical references, spiritual ideals, and her experience of slavery.
What does it mean for us to think that at a time that was two, three decades before the end of slavery, that people were learning how to read, they had to learn how to do math, they had to be on the cutting edge of science and technology, to do math, physics and chemistry just to make a single photograph.
Their stories tended to be different, black photographers, and they had a different narrative about black life during slavery, but it was also about family life, beauty and telling stories about community.
Jean-Baptiste Belley was a native of Senegal, a former slave of Haiti, but during his lifetime, he also was elected to represent the colony at the third government of the French Revolution, and he advocated strongly for the abolition of slavery.
Well, of course, they did and Voodoo is simply the distillation of these very profound religious ideas that came over during the tragic Diaspora of the slavery era.
I'm talking to you about modern-day slavery.
In this country, and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into sexual slavery.
You know for me, the interest in contemporary forms of slavery started with a leaflet that I picked up in London.
I went out and did a lit review, 3,000 articles on the key word "slavery."
Like this: Agricultural workers in Africa, whipped and beaten, showing us how they were beaten in the fields before they escaped from slavery and met up with our film crew.
I'm talking about real slavery.
It's real slavery in exactly the same way that slavery would be recognized throughout all of human history.
Well, this map in the sort of redder, yellower colors are the places with the highest densities of slavery.
But in fact that kind of bluey color are the countries where we can't find any cases of slavery.
Now, how on Earth did we get to a situation like this, where we have 27 million people in slavery in the year 2010?
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