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Now, we like to think that he made the dumbwaiter in order to spare his slaves all that labor of carrying the food up to the dining room for the people to eat.
That's not what it was for, it wasn't for the slaves, it was for Thomas Jefferson and his dinner guests, so they didn't have to see the slave bringing the food up.
This very same word can also mean "slave" and dancers were in fact known as knhom preah robam, or "slaves of the sacred dance."
The Khmer Rouge sought to end slavery in Cambodia, yet somehow they turned everyone into slaves to do it.
In 73 BCE, Spartacus led 73 other slaves to seize knives and skewers from the kitchen and fight their way out, hijacking a wagon of gladiator equipment along the way.
When the news reached Rome, the Senate was too busy with wars in Spain and the Pontic Empire to worry about some unruly slaves.
As news of the rebellion spread, its ranks swelled with escaped slaves, deserting soldiers, and hungry peasants.
Today is moving day, and she’ll have to direct throngs of her ladies, commanders, slaves and animals up the river Volga for the summer.
He fixated on a story Douglass told of how, over Christmas, masters give slaves gin as a way to prove to them that they can't handle freedom.
Because slaves would be stumbling on the fields.
He said that there are people in jail who, like slaves, don't want to think about their condition, because it's too painful.
In 1791, when the colony’s slaves rose up in rebellion, Christophe got another opportunity to fight for freedom.
Should we stop using slaves?
Maybe we free the kids and keep the slaves.
Sensing the power that tyranny craves, There in that hour, she made us her slaves.
Just then, two slavers caught up, guys chasing slaves, looking for Jim.
I saw this leaflet and it said, "There are millions of slaves in the world today."
I looked at slaves.
We're also particularly interested and looking very carefully at places where slaves are being used to perpetrate extreme environmental destruction.
Around the world, slaves are used to destroy the environment, cutting down trees in the Amazon; destroying forest areas in West Africa; mining and spreading mercury around in places like Ghana and the Congo; destroying the coastal ecosystems in South Asia.
Slaves cost between 3,000 to 8,000 dollars in North America, but I could take you places in India or Nepal where human beings can be acquired for five or 10 dollars.
The slavery at the peak of the slave trade in the 1780s: there were about 80,000 slaves transported from Africa to the New World.
As expected, things are going to get weird; when this young man turns into a mask wearing monster and roams the beaches scouting out nice looking party girls to make his slaves.
There are certain scenes in this film (like the hero's first meeting with super-villainess Shirley Eaton) where it seems to be on the edge of breaking sexual taboos and doing its premise (females want to rule the world by making men slaves) justice, but it never dares to.
So, the women are kidnapped and sent to ex Yugoslavian territory to work as sex slaves because (take a deep breath) the American military institution is corrupt and looks away while their private security contractors are selling people abroad.
People (in this case women) abducted to serve as slaves to a privileged elite?
And he partially understood this very well, as "The Girl from Rio" revolves on a man-hating organization, led by a funky dressed lesbo, that plots to turn all men into obedient slaves!
At the beginning of the movie the plantation owner Prosper gets in a conflict with his brother Antonio about the treatment of their slaves.
The elderly and supremely sleazy owner of the place is a widower (who probably also won a couple of "Moustache-of-the-Year" awards) who exploits and extendedly whips the slaves working for him.
His mistress, who if I understood correctly is also his cousin (?), is a genuine bitch of a woman who enjoys provoking arguments and sneaks out of the house overnight to copulate with crucified slaves.
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