He used the same brutal punishments once practiced by slave drivers.
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"God will hold the slave drivers of our days accountable," he said.
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" The "slave drivers of today," he added, "will be held to account by God.
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Earlier on Wednesday, the pope issued a scathing critique of capitalism, saying that God will hold accountable "slave drivers" who exploit workers.
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"God will hold the slave drivers of our day accountable," Francis said in a speech to workers and business owners in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, as he called for greater Christian ethics in business.
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On the last day of his whistlestop trip around Mexico, Pope Francis asked prisoners in the border city of Ciudad Juárez to pray for the society that has failed them, and then called business leaders "slave drivers" who were helping to foment violence.
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I stand by the belief that the freedoms that have been fought for and that we enjoy in a free society since the French Revolution, they have been fought for by people against forces like the church, or the aristocracy, or the super rich, or the slave drivers.
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Dieudonné, who insists he isn't anti-Semitic, is notorious for jokes based on ethnic stereotypes and inflammatory stand-up bits about Jews — he has publicly denied the Holocaust, claimed France is run by Jewish "slave drivers," and is credited with inventing a hand gesture known as the "quenelle," which critics say looks like an inverted Nazi salute.
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The Force Publique became slave drivers, forcing people to work for nothing. They also enforced Leopold's law forbidding the sale of rubber and ivory to foreign nations. The FP's methods included mutilation, village destruction, killings, and mass murder to motivate the slaves and locals to higher outputs. Cutting off right hands and daily slave whippings were most common.
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The state of Kentucky, which was carved out of the Colony of Virginia had received many of Virginia's slave drivers and slaves as people started migrating westward. These migrations spread out the population of African slaves in America, including Igbo slaves. Here the Igbo population had already become heavily creoleized alongside other African ethnicities that were taken in significant numbers to America.
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The emergence of new > media (and therefore artistic) formats is certainly interesting. But etching > information into copper plates is just as exciting. We think that the > perpetual return of 'the new', to cite Walter Benjamin, is nothing to write > home about - except perhaps for the slave-drivers in the fashion industry. > We've never been interested in the new just in itself, but in the accidental > occurrence.
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The sultan's slaves – among them Pellow and his 51 shipmates – were compelled to work on the palace's construction. It was gruelling physical labour made worse by the brutal slave drivers who beat any slave who slacked in his work. Sultan Mulay Ismail of Morocco, reigned 1672–1727. Milton's narrative draws on original documents, unpublished diaries and manuscript letters housed in The National Archives and the British Library manuscript collection.
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Their instincts of self-preservation also made them learn how to make picklocks to gain access to storages of potatoes or turnips, in order to appease their hunger. Essentially they learned two things at the institution: hatred of all kinds of oppression and tyranny, and solidarity against what he called slave-drivers and executioners.Andersen 1946, p. 51 From 1896 Toftes Gave was run by the State of Norway, until it closed in 1947.
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Trade routes from Gondar, located in the Ethiopian Highlands led to Massawa via Adwa. Slave drivers from Gondar took 100-200 slaves in a single trip to Massawa, the majority of whom were female. A small number of eunuchs were also acquired by the slave traders in the southern parts of Ethiopia. Mainly consisting of young children, they led the most privileged lives and commanded the highest prices in the Islamic global markets because of their rarity.
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He > urged what he called "the proletariat" in all countries to overthrow society > by a violent revolution, to destroy the middle classes and all employers of > labour, whom he denounced as capitalists and slave drivers. He demanded the > confiscation of private property and a new dictatorship, the dictatorship of > the proletariat. Just as Cobden interpreted and practised the precepts of > Adam Smith, so Lenin interpreted and practised the precepts of Karl Marx. > These two great men though dead yet speak.
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At the time of the massacre, General Grant was no longer in Tennessee but had transferred to the east to command all Union troops. He wrote in his memoirs that Forrest in his report of the battle had "left out the part which shocks humanity to read". Because of the events at Fort Pillow, the Northern public and press viewed Forrest as a war criminal. The Chicago Tribune said Forrest and his brothers were "slave drivers and woman whippers", while Forrest himself was described as "mean, vindictive, cruel, and unscrupulous".
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The first Pro Tools system launched on June 5, 1991. It was based on an adapted version of Deck ("ProDeck") along with Digidesign's new editing software, "ProEdit"; Sound Designer II was still supplied for two-channel editing. Pro Tools relied on Digidesign's Audiomedia card, mounting one Motorola 56001 processor with a clock rate of 22.58 MHz and offering two analog and two digital channels of I/O, and on the Sound Accelerator card. External synchronisation with audio and video tape machines was possible with SMPTE timecode and the Video Slave drivers.
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In addition to Ghadamès, which connected the beylik to Fezzan, Morzouk and the Kingdom of Bornou, Timbuktu was in regular contact with the Beylik via the caravan route which passed through M'zab and Djerid and put the country in touch with African groups and peoples of a large zone touching the Bambara lands, the city of Djenne and several regions of the central West Africa. The names of slaves and freedmen reported in archival documents confirm these multiple, diverse origins: beside common names like Burnaoui, Ghdamsi and Ouargli, are names indicating origin in other centres of West Africa like Jennaoui and Tombouctaoui. European slaves, for their part, were captured in the course of razzias on the coast of the European lands, mostly Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, and from the capture of European ships. The men were used for diverse tasks (slave drivers, public works, soldiers, public servant etc.), while women were used as domestic workers and in harems.
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"We have the silent strike on... The slave drivers are wild—the slaves won't work as hard as they want them to."Richard Steven Street, Beasts of the field: a narrative history of California farmworkers, 1769-1913, Stanford University Press, 2004, page 605 A definition of silent strike is offered in a book about the Filipino sugar strike of 1924-1925: > ...employees who do not receive the wages demanded will go on a silent > strike, staying on the job, but doing only enough work to earn the wages > they receive. According to the book, no IWW organizers were involved in a strike that erupted into a gunbattle, but the Honolulu Star-Bulletin blamed the IWW for the labor unrest anyway. The Harvard Monthly of 1913 offers a more embellished definition, > In case of failure to achieve any gains by a strike, the worker resorts to > sabotage, the silent strike by which are gained all the advantages of the > open strike without its dangers; i.e.
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