Trinity Church's architects rented slaves slaves to build the church.
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So the slaves states didn't want a popular election because their slaves wouldn't count towards voting and the slaves states would have less votes.
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They were still slaves, but they were treated differently than other slaves.
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The Merritts' servants, some of whom are said to haunt the Loyalist House to this day, were slaves — slaves in Rye, slaves in Saint John.
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In his research, Ralph said he found these slaves had more mobility than plantation slaves.
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The majority of slaves are women and girls; about a quarter of all slaves are children.
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It's a racist Brazilian expression that refers to slaves who would help capture escaped fellow slaves.
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They acted as his slaves and were encouraged to enroll other women as their own slaves.
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The line separates fields of uniform, ominous black and fast, intense green — ex slaves and slaves.
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"I have owned slaves, and bought slaves, but I never sold one," he assured the delegation.
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To honor the slaves' work, researchers compiled a list of 119 slaves who built and worked for the university, although they did not include children and women slaves on the list.
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I did not know he publicly beat some of his slaves to keep other slaves in line.
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"Ex Slaves, Slaves" (2017) is striking; it is a square that tightly contains the color within it.
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They were enforcing the laws of the South to hunt slaves and keep slaves with passes in check.
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Others say Brazil's prohibition on importing slaves forged a sense of self-reliance among ancestors fleeing economic devastation who could not bring slaves with them or were too poor to buy slaves in Brazil.
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While it's not clear how many slaves helped build it, a 2005 task force found slaves were definitely involved.
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There are no names for the slaves on the plaque, because the identities of Royall's slaves are not known.
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The university has a memorial for the slaves sold and offers admissions preference for the descendants of those slaves.
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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery.
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Washington inherited a number of slaves at age 85033 and received more slaves in his marriage to Martha Custis.
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Before they leave town, they go see the black man protesting the statue in the town square commemorating a Revolutionary War general who owned slaves, raped those slaves and imprisoned his own children from those slaves.
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Here is the hard crux of Girard's account: To free slaves required money, and money on Saint Domingue required slaves.
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Though slave owners tended to value their slaves' distilling prowess, they rarely documented how the slaves made such fine spirits.
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And while the percentage of slaves brought to the United States was relatively small, American owners bred slaves like cattle.
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Each of the eight recruited their own slaves, in separate groups called lineages, and those slaves in turn recruited others.
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Free the Slaves With Free the Slaves, you can donate, host and event, become a member, or volunteer your time.
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In "Slaves Without Masters," the historian Ira Berlin quotes an irate man addressing a neighbor who had freed his slaves.
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" Prosecutors claimed that during ceremonies in which her slaves were branded, Mack "placed her hands on the slaves' chests and told them to 'feel the pain' and to 'think of [their] master,' as the slaves cried with pain.
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" Prosecutors claim that during ceremonies in which her slaves were branded, Mack "placed her hands on the slaves' chests and told them to 'feel the pain' and to 'think of [their] master,' as the slaves cried with pain.
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Friends express concern when I make a connection between slaves and robots that I may have the effect of dehumanizing slaves or the descendants of slaves, thus exacerbating an already tense and advanced war of words and symbols.
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In Westworld, constant rebooting makes artificial lifeforms conscious of the fact that they are slaves, and horribly mistreated slaves at that.
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At Yorktown, thousands of escaped slaves recruited as soldiers fought within the British lines; when the Americans compelled the British to surrender, many of the slaves were returned to their miserable bondage—including slaves owned by Washington and Jefferson.
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The list of those who have had few or no legal rights throughout history is staggering: women, children, orphans, widows, Jews, gays and lesbians, slaves, former slaves, descendants of slaves, those with leprosy, undocumented immigrants — to name a few.
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In the Census of 1860, roughly 55 percent of people in Mississippi were slaves, and 49 percent of white Mississippians owned slaves.
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Masters would help their Slaves cut calories and perform acts of "self-denial," while Slaves would perform "acts of care" for masters.
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Agassiz searched for "racially 'pure' slaves born in Africa," whose numbers were dwindling since the 1807 ban on the importation of slaves.
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The women were literally called "slaves" and were required to recruit more "slaves" to follow group orders, or risk having their nudes released.
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The group was attacked by ISIS in 2014; several thousand were killed, and more than 3,000 others were taken as slaves, including sex slaves.
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The school, which in 19363 sold 272 slaves, plans to award preferential status in the admissions process to descendants of slaves, among other moves.
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The white slavers secreted their slaves — an illicit cargo as the importation of slaves was then illegal — in what is now known as Africatown.
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Southerners wanted to count slaves fully to increase their legislative representation, while Northerners argued that slaves, who couldn't vote, should not count at all.
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I feel like there needs to be more representation of slaves in our education system to fully grasp an understanding of how slaves lived.
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But also here are intimations of horror: slaves' cabins, 19th-century photographs of slaves' backs scarred by flogging, the open pants of lynching victims.
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It's not just about the slaves who want to be free — it's about the slaves who refuse to leave, the slaves grappling with the life-or-death stakes, surrounded by the parallel world inhabited by white people in this tense period of American history.
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With that in mind, we descendants of African slaves are indebted to the slaves who chose slavery over death in hope of a better day.
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In 1864, during the Civil War, the Confederate Army made slaves repair the fortress while it was under attack, and at least 20 slaves died.
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The slaves were replaced with new "fakir" cards that served the same purpose mechanically, but the game now avoided any mention or reference to slaves.
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In a particularly uncomfortable moment, Penelope's slaves are raped by her suitors; later, Odysseus orders the slaves' murder, which is gleefully carried out by Telemachus.
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Shoes — issued to field slaves to prevent foot injuries that could sideline them from work — were collected at night to discourage slaves from taking flight.
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Growing recognition of the role that slaves played in constructing the United States has helped fuel the topic of reparations for descendants of American slaves.
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They're slaves who don't know they're slaves, providing immersive—and ultraviolent—entertainment to paying customers, in settings such as saloons and a dusty frontier wilderness.
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In a direct election system, the South would have lost every time because a huge percentage of its population was slaves, and slaves couldn't vote.
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So, Bales argues, "It is precisely the role slaves play in this ecological catastrophe that opens a new solution": Free the slaves and save the planet.
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He contemplated sending freed slaves back to Africa Lincoln was firmly against slavery -- yet his position on what should happen to freed slaves wasn't so clear.
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Slaves' Graves & Ballads is actually two records rolled into one, the former, Slaves' Graves, a collaboration with The Orchestral Society For the Preservation of the Orchestra.
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Harriet Tubman, who freed thousands of slaves, when she was being praised, said 'I could have freed thousands more, if only they knew they were slaves.
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And just so it's clear, despite not working in the fields, "house slaves" were still slaves and were often abused, raped or killed by slave masters.
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In the South, the root of early law enforcement was slave patrol, responsible for quelling revolts, pursuing runaway slaves, and disciplining slaves who broke plantation rules.
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The struggle over property in slaves focused largely on the fate of the Western territories, but it also inflamed conflicts over the status of fugitive slaves.
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Slaves added compromising collateral every month to Dropbox accounts, and a Google Document was used to list a timetable for recruiting new slaves, several women said.
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Sanford decision, considered among the worst in U.S. history, held that slaves and former slaves had no right to citizenship and no legal standing in court.
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Southerners wanted to count slaves as little as possible to reduce their share; Northerners wanted to count slaves fully so that the South would pay more.
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There are payrolls from the time that show the government itself did not own slaves but paid their masters for the slaves' labor, according to the association.
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"Jefferson retrieved five or six of his slaves; Washington recovered two young black women but not a dozen other slaves who managed to slip away," Hoock recounts.
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However, there are anecdotal accounts of brawls between slaves, of matches were slaves were forced to fight each other to the death for a chance at freedom.
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When she said, "I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves," her main purpose wasn't to indict white people for owning slaves.
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A wealthy Englishman, he held Native American slaves, and both of his sons held black slaves; he even helped write the first law in America sanctioning the practice.
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In 1783 he signed the first fugitive slave law, which authorised the recapture of escaped slaves in any state and the punishment of anyone found harbouring fugitive slaves.
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Maher made a distinction between slaves that toiled in fields and slaves that were allowed to work indoors, using the slur to refer to himself as the latter.
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In the 800s, Vikings took black slaves in North African cities before selling them in northern Europe, and Vikings sold northern European slaves in the Middle East, too.
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Northern emancipation hardly delivered the slaves or their children from oppressive conditions; poverty forced many ex-slaves to enter themselves or their children into long-term indentured servitude.
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First, there are only two slaves of note in the film who are shown still in servitude, and both apparently house slaves: Rachel and a man named George.
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More than 800 slaves arrived along the Camden waterfront, according to the Camden County Historical Society, and New Jersey at one point had as many as 12,000 slaves.
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As early as 1843, in New Orleans' Congo Square on the weekends, slaves joined up with freed slaves in a gathering that harkened back to musical traditions in Africa.
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Some of the results were intriguing, if a bit mundane: the researchers found that male slaves were more likely to take out the garbage than female slaves, for example.
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There, she spent 10 minutes inside a dungeon where male slaves were held and also visited the "Door of No Return," where slaves were shipped to the New World.
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Some of the nation's first police forces were slave patrols, which enforced the laws of the plantation police state, caught runaway slaves, thwarted revolts, and punished and executed slaves.
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In Silverman's sober, sprawling account, America is a nation built on slaves and guns — the slaves often Indians taken captive by other Indians in order to obtain the guns.
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" "It was Abraham Lincoln that freed the slaves.
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These searchable listings indicate how often slaves managed to leave with their children, how some were able to pass for white and how many recaptured slaves kept trying to escape.
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The university, which sold 272 slaves in 1838 to raise the funds needed to remain open, will launch an admissions program that will award preferential status to descendants of slaves.
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When Dr. Payton became president of Tuskegee, he affirmed the enduring value of historically black institutions, many of whose first students were former slaves or the sons of freed slaves.
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After its completion, presidents continue to use slaves to maintain the household, and seven presidents even brought their own slaves, including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, and Zachary Taylor.
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" Furthermore, "While the death rate of U.S. slaves was about the same as that of Jamaican slaves, the fertility rate was more than 80 percent higher in the United States.
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Whereas North American slaves were prohibited from using drums, slaves in Cuba were allowed to use drums and passed down spiritual chants from generation to generation through religious Santeria ceremonies.
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And the unverifiable diet of the slaves who labored to erect America's presidential palace does not rectify the fact that black people should not have been slaves in the first place.
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When Washington was 11, he inherited 10 slaves from his father; when he died five decades later, he owned 123 of the 17803 slaves who lived and worked at Mount Vernon.
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From my travels, I now know what Harriet Tubman meant when she expressed that she could have freed thousands more slaves if they had known or understood that they were slaves.
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Athletes are slaves Kim Hyung-soo, a 54-year-old father of a North Korean former skier, also described the women to Bloomberg as "slaves," though he didn't mention anything sexual.
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Britain transported more than three million Africans across the Atlantic, and in 1833 it freed all slaves throughout its empire, offering compensation to their owners — but not to the slaves themselves.
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Account books record the purchase of five slaves by Matthias Lopez in 1787, while Jacob Levy Jr. is mentioned in an abolitionist society's papers as having freed four slaves in 1817.
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Slavery broke them apart by allowing family members to be sold at auctions to different owners, and by prohibiting slaves from legally marrying, since slaves were classified as property, not people.
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The other really interesting thing that I observed in the interviews with formerly enslaved people is that white women often owned twice as many female slaves as they did male slaves.
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And yet when Thomas Jefferson's contemporaries talk in public about why the colonists need to be free from England, they refer to themselves as slaves, slaves to the king of England.
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You had incredible sacrifices by Quakers who were willing to put their very lives at risk to help build coalitions with black slaves and escaped slaves to build the Underground Railroad.
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It was looking at that construction process, of looking at enslaved African, African-born, and American-born slaves and showing how pictures were being used to somehow legitimize the subjugation of slaves.
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The slaves are optional, and they might help you achieve glory quicker, but the game also includes an "abolition of slavery" card that, when drawn, forces all players to discard their slaves.
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Desch Obi recognizes two forms of contests in the Antebellum South: matches between slaves on the same plantation for 'fun' and matches between slaves from different plantations for the purpose of gambling.
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In 2007, a student made her undergraduate thesis the first-ever investigation of the slaves owned by the school, and an alumnus is currently independently researching the living descendants of those slaves.
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Map of insurance policies taken out on slaves (Source: The Treasury of Weary Souls) Map of insurance policies taken out on slaves (Source: The Treasury of Weary Souls) As Ralph's research shows, slave owners sometimes relied on financial firms like Aetna, AIG and New York Life Insurance to insure the slaves whose skills were highly valued.
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Historically, Black womanhood has been inseparable from motherhood, with Black female slaves expected to have children in order to create more slaves, and later relegated to domestic labor that included midwifery and childcare.
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Former slaves in America arrived via Nova Scotia, free Jamaican "Maroons" were descended from slaves, and west Africans were freed on the high seas after Britain banned the international slave trade in 1807.
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HBCUs were founded to educate former slaves and their descendants.
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Colonial governors sought to recruit runaway slaves to their side.
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They told officials they had been used as sex slaves.
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There's also precious little discussion about Monroe's ownership of slaves.
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" "Slaves did participate in the construction of the White House.
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The stories resulted in freedom for more than 2,000 slaves.
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Slaves, just freed after the Civil War, were not stupid.
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Her sisters beside her — all slaves to the old woman.
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In short, the victims lived like modern day sex slaves.
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Descendants of the original slaves still live in the area.
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"Sleep" also references depictions of slaves being transported on ships.
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Men made up less than 11 percent of freed slaves.
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Maurice I. Middleberg is executive director of Free the Slaves.
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The peddling of slaves remains a pox upon American history.
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Johel remembered stories of the days when Haitians were slaves.
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If Lincoln angered them, as surely emancipating their slaves would
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That we are Kurds, and we refuse to be slaves.
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They are all Kim Jong Un and North Korea's slaves.
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Second, offer free educations to every descendant of those slaves.
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Some urged the church to get rid of its slaves.
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Pimps use fear to keep their sex slaves in bondage.
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During Passover, we remember when we were slaves in Egypt.
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The city's hospitality industry depended on Southerners and their slaves.
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They set up Vigilance Committees to protect fugitive slaves and
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Slaves built some of the United States' most symbolic buildings.
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Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home in Charlottesville was built by slaves.
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Fairfax, a descendant of slaves, was nowhere to be found.
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Slaves did participate in the construction of the White House.
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Most of this backbreaking labor was performed by African slaves.
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The people I know, my friends, they didn't own slaves.
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They are themselves slaves of marketing; the content is secondary.
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We knew our family had once been slaves in Louisiana.
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They would rather be slaves than live in North Korea.
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Strikingly, the new People's Party, or Populists, included former slaves.
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In the main house, we are shown the slaves' staircase.
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Masters of both sexes graphically rape slaves of both sexes.
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Are the founding fathers who owned slaves next in line?
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And anyone could participate: men, women, slaves and even children.
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Some migrants, reports say, have even been sold as slaves.
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Former generations of Bedouin brought slaves from Africa, she recounted.
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And more slaves than ever in the history of America.
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"The Italian people won't be slaves to anyone," he said.
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How many more slaves are needed in the cotton fields?
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In other cases, the mistreatment of slaves is wildly unexaggerated.
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But some slaves, fearing retribution, leaked the plan to authorities.
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"Well, having slaves is part of Sharia," she finally ventured.
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During his lifetime, Lee owned a small number of slaves.
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Washington freed as many of his 317 slaves as possible.
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Jackson also owned more than 100 slaves during his lifetime.
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Alive, slaves were among a white man's most prized assets.
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How many of their own slaves were hatching similar plans?
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The Arabs stole their children and turned them into slaves.
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"When it was safe, he emancipated his slaves," she said.
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We are debt slaves, consumer suckas, car clowns, complainy pants.
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Washington and Jefferson owned slaves ... so, he says fair question.
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Soon, other slave owners realize Nat's eloquence can be used to keep their slaves in line, and so they start paying Samuel to have Nat preach about slaves receiving their reward in the afterlife.
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Indeed, it was so gradual that there were still slaves in the federal census in Pennsylvania in 1840 and even a few slaves yet to be freed in New Jersey as late as 1865.
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The records indicate most of both James McConnell's and Daley's slaves managed to escape, with the 1860 census showing that all of James McConnell's slaves had fled, as had all but one of Daley's.
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The quote is: "Similarly I know that our ancestors, who were slaves, could not have imagined my life," not "Similarly I know that my ancestors, who were slaves, could not have imagined my life."
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White Southerners were afraid of being outvoted by Northerners, and wanted their slaves, or at least 3/5 of them, included in the allocation of votes even though the slaves themselves could not vote.
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By contrast, Georgetown is able to try to pay it forward to the direct descendants of slaves precisely because the sale was well-documented, with bills of sale that identify the slaves by name.
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When CNN host John Berman pointed out that Lee ordered the beating of his slaves, the recapture of fugitive slaves and that he fought a war to preserve the southern system of slavery, Moore interjected.
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Investigators said Raniere, who was known as "Vanguard" to his followers, occupied the top of a pyramid called DOS, with tiers of female "slaves," each of whom could become a "master" to slaves beneath them.
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Buying back ransomed slaves The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), a semi-autonomous body that governs Kurdish-controlled regions in northern Iraq, says it is spending millions of dollars to secure the release of Yazidi slaves.
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At the same time that Islam was fading among communities of slaves and former slaves, millions of immigrants began arriving on America's shores toward the end of the 19th and especially the early 93th centuries.
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History books frequently reduce the lives of slaves to hollow experiences, focusing on dates and wars, and ignoring the everyday life of the men, women, and children who lived as slaves in the United States.
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"Thrones" features few black actors in prominent roles, other than characters who are, or once were, slaves, and includes a plotline in which a population of darker-skinned slaves was liberated by a white savior.
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Because of their pacifist nature, they are often captured as slaves.
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Why would the production of sentient robot slaves be any different?
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NXIVM reportedly used female members as "sex slaves" for Keith Raniere.
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In the north, the appearance of southerners was associated with slaves.
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Did the Tamagotchi prime us to become slaves to meaningless beeping?
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Slaves quarried and cut stone for the walls, among other jobs.
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Most bosses complain of being slaves to short-term profit targets.
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The slaves were only freed after the death of Martha Washington.
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Estimates vary about the number of slaves Tubman helped free: History.
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On that show, most people of color are slaves or slavers.
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Historians estimate an additional 2 million slaves died on the voyage.
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He almost never purchased slaves himself and, when he did, it
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The stained-glass window depicted a scene of slaves picking cotton.
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But "workers" and slaves are not at all the same thing.
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What about that prison industrial system turning Brothers into new slaves?
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Carson, a Black man and famous neurosurgeon, said slaves were immigrants.
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Some people were quick to emphasize that slaves were not immigrants.
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Where slaves were picking cotton, prisoners started to fill that role.
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Currently, there are about 3.7 million slaves working on the plantations.
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Social history -- including for the descendants of African slaves -- is complicated.
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The plantation's priest instructs the remaining slaves to raise a cross.
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Founded by freed American slaves, Liberia is Africa's oldest modern republic.
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Slaves were property with no rights and no chance of justice.
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Let's finish the job with fair compensation to the slaves' descendants.
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They were Quakers, slaves, people with criminal backgrounds, or outspoken women.
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However, rumors and accusations surfaced of LaLaurie's mistreatment of her slaves.
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Few of the slaves were emancipated until the law required it.
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Spain brought disease and African slaves and built a plantation economy.
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"You were the grandson of slaves from South Carolina," said Sen.
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So the smugglers become masters, the migrants and refugees become slaves.
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Obama's comment about the White House: Slaves did help build it.
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Historians generally agree that slaves indeed helped build the White House.
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The workers, mostly slaves, were employed through contracts from their masters.
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We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure.
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Moravian slaves were buried in the main God Acre&aposs graveyard.
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And they punished the Yazidi slaves in whatever way they could.
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Islamic State's take on sharia permits men to take sex slaves.
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Most were taken to Raqqa to be used as sex slaves.
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This situation had them living their lives as 20th-century slaves.
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He soon has another problem: Three escaped slaves are seeking sanctuary.
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Odom features as William Still, a free man helping escaped slaves.
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Visitors can see the basements, attics and kitchens where slaves slept.
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All were African-American, and some may have been former slaves.
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Amputation was specified as one of the punishments for runaway slaves.
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Millions of women and children work as sex slaves in India.
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My maternal ancestors were runaway slaves from neighboring plantations in Virginia.
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Those black slaves later governed the town according to African custom.
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Originally, praise houses were used as houses of worship for slaves.
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They rarely sold slaves, especially if it meant breaking up families.
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"Slaves are accessories," Ms. Moss said of artwork of the time.
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Maria Rosa Palacios was an Afro-Ecuadorian and descendant of slaves.
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Slave owners worked hard to prevent their slaves from running away.
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By 1867, the organization had sent 13,000 freed slaves to Liberia.
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Only 96 slaves were able to pick cotton for that day.
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Those and other policies were designed to keep slaves from revolting.
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" The report followed an article by The Times on "sea slaves.
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His slaves and hers had married, they had had children together.
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"These employees are not slaves, and they're not soldiers," he said.
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"There could be a lot of slaves buried there," he said.
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The Conquistadors and their successors also imported millions of African slaves.
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The Conquistadors and their successors also imported millions of African slaves.
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Much of Epictetus' advice is about not getting angry at slaves.
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Jesuit records show Mr. Jones escaped before the slaves were sold.
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" It adds: "Free the Black Slaves from the Democratic Party Plantation.
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On one plantation, the slaves have been starved nearly to death.
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The goal of our state is to turn people into slaves.
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Owners of slaves did not see black women as like themselves.
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And the research could help descendants of slaves identify their origins.
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It's like Ben Carson saying slaves came to to have opportunity.
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The Atlantic Ocean was once a sloshing highway to transport slaves.
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Telling that teacher he understood the difference between immigrants and slaves.
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Some descendants of the original slaves still live in the area.
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Fireplaces abound, except in the attic, where some slaves probably slept.
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Anakin Skywalker came from nothing; he and his mother were slaves.
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Prior to British occupation, slaves were not allowed to worship Islam.
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Most of Ned's words come from the journals of fugitive slaves.
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Because slaves themselves were considered property, they could not own property.
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The descendants of slaves, or share ancestry with those who are.
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Underground is also about slaves trying to escape from a plantation.
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There's more than double the amount of slaves in the world.
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That's what made a Christian nation even capable of having slaves.
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As originally written, it institutionalized slavery, counted slaves as three-fifths of a person in the drawing of congressional districts, mandated the return of escaped slaves to their owners, and gave no formal rights to women.
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It's hard to overstate how much slaves built America: according to historian Steven Deyle, the value of all slaves in 1860 was seven times the value of all currency then in circulation in the United States.
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As Allison Mack confirmed of the group in the New York Times Magazine, so-called "Masters" would recruit newer NXIVM women to become their "Slaves," who would in turn become Masters by finding their own Slaves.
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Native American slaves known as Genízaros were sold to Hispanic families when the region was under Spanish control from the 16th to 19th centuries, with some slaves remaining under control when the U.S. governed New Mexico.
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Quite the contrary; young men ignorant of the religion could be shaped into ruthless fighters, and lured with practices that included giving them sex slaves and telling them that raping the slaves was justified under Islam.
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For example, Georgetown University recently discovered that 272 slaves were sold in 1838 to raise money to prevent the school from closing, and is now trying to identify and honor the history of those slaves' descendants.
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"In many cases, the masters helped the prospective slaves develop ideas for what would be appropriate collateral or instructed the prospective slaves on lies to tell in order to make the collateral more damaging," the complaint states.
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Forrest explained that the increased accuracy means the Index now estimates the number of slaves in a country today, whereas previously, its figures were for the number of slaves in a country over a five-year period.
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Thousands of slaves ran to the British lines, with the encouragement of the British Army, and though the Brits mainly valued the slaves as an irritant to their masters, they did give them shelter and, sometimes, arms.
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The drawing also indicates the number and gender of the slaves acquired in Africa, how many survived the journey, and an accounting of the goods bought in the Caribbean with the earnings from the sale of slaves.
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Some 123 slaves were his to emancipate while neither he nor Martha could free the so-called "Custis Dower slaves" (who remained property of the heirs to the estate of Daniel Parke Custis, Martha Washington's first husband).
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Values less than 28503 mean that voters in those states are, well, a bit like the slaves of old (although slaves couldn't vote, of course), and values greater than 22019 signify a new breed of super-voters.
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The year 1619 also saw the delivery of the first African slaves.
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Turner leads his fellow slaves in a rebellion to overthrow their masters.
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These amendments extended constitutional rights to former slaves and other African Americans.
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Talladega, which was founded in 1867 by former slaves, has 800 students.
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No legitimate history of antebellum American credit can skip over what slaves
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But freedom is rarely enough to enable former slaves to move on.
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To see slaves, women, and Jewish people exact revenge on their tyrants?
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Then they took the young women and sold them as sex slaves.
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Fifteen percent of the slaves in the original 13 colonies were Muslim.
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After slavery was abolished, ranchers hired their former slaves as paid workers.
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DeGioia, who established the working group, excluded descendants of the 272 slaves.
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But text was used merely to keep track of possessions and slaves.
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Go deeper: Georgetown students voted to pay reparations for descendants of slaves
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Romans (or, rather, their slaves) worked the mines on an unprecedented scale.
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I'm talkin' about us, the new slaves, the people who love fashion.
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Former slaves also remained plantation laborers, and their living conditions barely improved.
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Jefferson wasn't sure that former slaves and masters could ever be reconciled,
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Because white male owners so frequently treated women slaves as concubines at
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What exactly were these lifestyle slaves getting out of all these chores?
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Abeid, himself a descendent of slaves, had campaigned partly on this platform.
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After slavery was abolished, freed slaves also claimed land on the prairie.
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Their empire was founded on the back of entire species of slaves.
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A place on whose streets women were bought and sold as slaves.
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Inge Hardison, a native of Portsmouth, Va., was a granddaughter of slaves.
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He also has made comments about his family's history of owning slaves.
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Conyers also proposed a commission to consider reparations for descendants of slaves.
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And slaves were not only forced to work on the Jesuit plantations.
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Tubman helped slaves escape bondage before the end of the Civil War.
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Thick iron rings are jammed into support beams, demonstrating where slaves shackled.
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The market for slaves had grown tremendously in the previous five decades.
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In 1723, he sent slaves to clear the land, and plant tobacco.
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After building the house, slaves maintained it and worked on his plantation.
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"All we've known as slaves is work," a woman named Athelia says.
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And research has shown that others besides whites owned slaves in America.
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He freed the slaves, won the Civil War, and saved the Union.
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These included minors forced into the sex trade or kept as slaves.
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Needless to say, the former slaves are not pleased with this compromise.
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But the vast majority of 20th-century slaves were of African descent.
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Yet to do so is to misunderstand the very essence of Slaves.
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The distinction and the context you described which was descendants of slaves….
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But she's the only one of the escaped Tethered slaves who does.
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Escaped slaves flocked there, adding to an already sizable African-American population.
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This is an area that my organization, Free the Slaves, knows well.
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Ms. Walker was born in Louisiana in 1867 to two former slaves.
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Death rates were staggeringly high; convicts, unlike slaves, cost nothing to replace.
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Slaves often couldn't even marry, because their marriages were legally considered void.
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If the Constitution had counted citizens, it would have left out slaves.
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As Mr. Kendi reminds us, eight presidents owned slaves while in office.
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We're all slaves to the natural system as much as anything else.
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Yes, he owned more than 300 slaves at his death in 1799.
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The vast majority of women who owned slaves owned less than 20.
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So what are we slaves to technology supposed to do with this?
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But the slaves who ran away were persistent reminders of the truth.
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They were thought to be the earliest known photographs of American slaves.
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She grew up in North Carolina and was a descendant of slaves.
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During the Civil War, slaves freed themselves by walking to Union lines.
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Part of the reason they had slaves was to cultivate their farms.
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"As a descendant of slaves, I cannot support this resolution," he said.
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Like other landowners of the time, the Quakers owned African-American slaves.
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Even racist whites did not want to compete for work with slaves.
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It was named for the African country, the source of its slaves.
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There are millions of drivers and we are all treated like slaves.
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Our revolutionary heroes fought for freedom while many of them owned slaves.
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He also says Marshall treats all his black friends like indentured slaves.
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The grandson of slaves, Harold Leroy Wood was born in Bridgeport, Conn.
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Girls are being kidnapped to serve soldiers as cooks and sex slaves.
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Mary Jones was especially fond of two slaves, a mother and daughter.
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Slavery was hard on slaves and colonisation was tough on the colonised.
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In Central African Republic, French peacekeepers used local teenagers as sex slaves.
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Mitchell portrays white enslavers as noble, slaves as shiftless, docile and loyal.
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Everyday tools - be it Skype or job sites - can set slaves free.
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The slaves were taken from their Maryland plantation and relocated to Louisiana.
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Moreover, most slaves who sought to be free didn't run at all.
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FREEDOM OVER ME. Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life.
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Many are traded and sold as sex slaves once they get there.
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We didn't import black slaves and beat them to work for us.
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Still, reports say there are 20,000 more child slaves on the lake.
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Instead, they became slaves in Thailand's lucrative fishing fleet, the authorities said.
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Like other slaveholders, he considered trade in slaves more odious than ownership.
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He also owned slaves briefly during a tour of the antebellum South.
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Can you tell me a bit about some of your current slaves?
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Many of my current slaves are under some form of tech control.
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This trading network carried spices and precious metals and slaves — and germs.
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Foster collected the slaves and brought them across the Atlantic to Mobile.
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"The blacks were witness to that same thing as slaves," he said.
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They would be paid to beat these slaves when they were unruly.
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Square's piece directly references manumission papers, documents issued to newly freed slaves.
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