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Europeans subdued Amerindian populations and also brought in massive numbers of slaves from Africa, especially to the Caribbean basin and Brazil.
Women like me are forced to work like slaves and are often victims of sexual violence.
It is not difficult to see the parallels between Putin’s approach and that of Joseph Stalin, who declared at the start of WWII that the “enemy” aims to “destroy” Russia’s “national culture,” to “Germanize” its people, and “convert them into slaves.”
Policymakers, like all of us, are slaves to fashion.
Europeans colonized the Caribbean islands as sugar plantations, ruthlessly bringing African slaves by the millions to work, and die young, on those plantations.
Sudan’s ruling class – descendants of Arab slaves – have no qualms about bombing, killing, and displacing millions of their black citizens in the south and now in the Darfur region, with the backing of the Arab League.
Of course, historically, the oppression of large groups – slaves, women, and minorities of various types – are obvious instances where inequalities are the result of power relationships, not marginal returns.
They are making sex slaves of some women, branding some victims like cattle, and maiming and mutilating women and girls, some as young as three years old, by destroying their vaginas and other internal organs.
Julius Caesar, for example, put his own household slaves in charge of the mint and state revenues.
What are they, if not slaves?
Aristotle envisaged a future in which “mechanical slaves” did the work of actual slaves, leaving citizens free for higher pursuits.
Or, perhaps more accurately, it denied the rights of a majority of the population – including African-American slaves and Native Americans, as well as white women – while affording unprecedented equality to the rest.
The ensuing constitutional crisis outlasted the war by more than a decade, as the Court continued to undermine legislation and constitutional amendments meant to protect freed slaves, and as Congress retaliated by stripping the Court of jurisdiction.
Anglo-American freedom and democracy was traditionally associated with rugged Protestant individualism;Catholics were believed to be reactionary slaves to an ecclesiastical hierarchy.
Voter Suppression Comes to EuropeROME – Voter suppression first emerged in the United States between 1885 and 1908, when 11 southern states enacted laws designed to discourage or hinder former slaves and their descendants from voting.
Yet automation also promises relief from most forms of enforced work, bringing closer to reality Aristotle’s extraordinary prediction that all needed work would one day be carried out by “mechanical slaves,” leaving humans free to live the “good life.”
With personal data becoming the world’s most valuable commodity, will users be the platform economy’s masters or its slaves?
It was sufficient to join and the companies trembled, for the men entered the great army of workers who were resolved to die for one another rather than to remain the slaves of a capitalistic society.
He felt contempt for both of them and treated them as slaves, telling them that he had a princess for his mistress and that they were unworthy to appear before her.
becoming slaves again?
To begin with, it enfranchised the slaves, introduced into the world a morality—""That isn't the question.
Slaves in the days of Spanish rule, they still retain this facial characteristic of the Egyptian fellahin.
We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach.
"I say nothing of its ability; but if true, why not set your slaves at liberty?"
Will your master liberate the slaves of his subjects should he succeed in subduing the new states, or will he condemn the whites to the same servitude as that in which he has been so long content to see the blacks?
Doubtless, as we advance, the manumission of our slaves will accompany us, until happily these fair regions shall exist, without a single image of the Creator that is held in a state which disqualifies him to judge of that Creator's goodness."
Men who have nothing, act as if the wealth of the Indies depended on their fidelity; all are not villains like yourself, or we should have been slaves to England years ago."
The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story--that is to say, thirty or forty years ago.
'Such as we call them, my dear,' says she, 'but they are more properly called slaves.'Or, secondly, such as are transported from Newgate and other prisons, after having been found guilty of felony and other crimes punishable with death.
He smiled at that part, and said he should like the last the best of the two, for he had a kind of horror upon his mind at his being sent over to the plantations, as Romans sent condemned slaves to work in the mines; that he thought the passage into another state, let it be what it would, much more tolerable at the gallows, and that this was the general notion of all the gentlemen who were driven by the exigence of their fortunes to take the road; that at the place of execution there was at least an end of all the miseries of the present state, and as for what was to follow, a man was, in his opinion, as likely to repent sincerely in the last fortnight of his life, under the pressures and agonies of a jail and the condemned hole, as he would ever be in the woods and wilderness of America; that servitude and hard labour were things gentlemen could never stoop to; that it was but the way to force them to be their own executioners afterwards, which was much worse; and that therefore he could not have any patience when he did but think of being transported.
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