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And the grimmest statistic of all is that many child slaves who are rescued are resold by officials to another slave-labor plant.
So, instead of China being convulsed with rage at news that children are being turned into slaves, the media are censored and the 400 parents of the Hongdong children are blacklisted by the government.
You can be sure that, this time next year, they will be paying homage to their ancestors, as they tramp over the ground where child slaves were buried alive for daring to proclaim their humanity.
The use of the term “slavery” in relation to something that it is wrong to do to animals is especially significant, for until now it has been assumed that animals are rightly our slaves, to use as we wish, whether to pull our carts, be models of human diseases for research, or produce eggs, milk, or flesh for us to eat.
Slavery did not succeed in keeping labor costs down because the slaves themselves were expensive.
In the US, after the end of the post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction, southern states enacted vagrancy laws, which permitted the authorities to imprison displaced former slaves and condemn them to forced labor if it could be argued that they were idle.
For example, entrusting valuable assets to disgruntled slaves may be unwise.
One fundamental difference between free labor and slavery is that slaves must be bought, meaning that the gains from exploitation do not necessarily accrue to the current slave owner, but are anticipated in the purchase price of the slave.
Up to 200,000 political prisoners are kept as slaves in brutal labor camps, where they are lucky if they are not tortured to death.
The British economist Nicholas Stern went so far as to claim that his colleagues had become the slaves of defunct politicians.
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that slaves and their descendants were “beings of an inferior order” who had “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”
The slaves – and generations of their descendants – were routinely murdered.
Perhaps the haunting tune of the lament of the Hebrew slaves in Babylon from Verdi’s opera Nabucco would, after all, have been the most fitting accompaniment to the transfer ceremonies, not the Chinese triumphalism and imperial nostalgia whose strange, chilly mix characterized that midnight pageant.
And, indeed, Park has consistently spurned Abe by refusing to hold a bilateral summit with him, in protest over Japan’s alleged historical revisionism, particularly with regard to the Korean “comfort women” who served as sex slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army during WWII.
This created a vacuum, allowing delusion and deception to blot out the benefits of European cooperation, and encouraging the view that the British had become the slaves of Brussels.
And is not an updated version of Syrian (and then Iraqi) King Faisal’s exhortation to Arabs – “Choose to be either slaves or masters of your own destiny” – echoed in the political pronouncements of new leaders in Egypt and elsewhere.
Given Boko Haram’s threat to sell the girls across Africa as sex slaves, the abduction is now an issue not just for Nigeria but for surrounding countries, including Chad and particularly Cameron, where they are likely to be sent.
And like the LRA, Boko Haram has become infamous for targeting children, abducting boys and girls as young as seven to serve as soldiers and sex slaves.
While the official media are flooding television and cinema screens with propaganda about Confucius, ancient fairytales, and kung fu epics, “Wo Ju” engages a broad cross-section of contemporary society, which sees in it troubling aspects of their own lives: official corruption, mistresses, even house slaves.
It is morally better to have our goods supplied by free labor than by slaves, and to choose our goods rather than have them chosen for us by the state.
Business would boom, the City of London would prosper, and Britons never would be slaves, not of the EU or anyone else.
But an estimated 50-90% of them are actually sex slaves, raped on a daily basis with police idly standing by.
Instead of having their peoples begin to manufacture their own goods, these rulers chose to import them from Europe in exchange for their own subjects – or the subjects of neighboring rulers – whom they exported as slaves.
When slavery was abolished in the mid-nineteenth century, the terms of these rulers’ partnership with Western colonizers changed from trade in slaves to trade in commodities.
Perhaps the closest Japan has come was the former mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto, who first made his name as a television personality and then disgraced himself in recent years by commending the use of wartime sex slaves by the Imperial Japanese Army.
While men were also made into objects of ownership and trade, as slaves, in general women were much more likely to be treated as commodities in non-slave-owning systems.
White men owned slaves, denied the vote to women, and took the lands and lives of native Americans.
In a brilliant book, Loaded, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reminds us that the “well-regulated militias” mentioned in the US Constitution’s Second Amendment, which enshrines the right to bear arms, were groups of white men that raided native American villages and hunted down escaped slaves.
In fact, they are slaves to preserving their dominant position.
Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”
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