You can buy a slave for $50 Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave. There are more slaves on the planet today than at any time in human history. Adjusting for inflation, in 1850 a slave would cost roughly $30k to $40k. Today you can go to Haiti and buy a 9-year-old girl to use as a sexual and domestic slave for $50.
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Britain's slave history going online Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Britain's slave trading past is getting a human face as an ancestry-tracing website starts putting the personal histories of the victims online for the first time.
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New 'Fritzl horror' as woman, 55, found on remote Austrian farm where she worked as slave for last 40 years Posted: 1 year ago by Franz6
A woman was forced to work as a slave on a remote Alpine farm for more than 40 years.
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Michelle Obama's family: From slavery to White House Posted: 1 year ago by muppet
In January, when the Obamas move into the White House — a mansion built partially by slaves — as the country's first African-American first family, Michelle Obama will embark upon a life her great-great-grandfather never could have envisioned.
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Volunteer brings aloha to Haiti Posted: 2 months ago by jhordie
Hawaii resident Deborah Quigley is headed to Haiti for a week, her second trip in eight days, to bring medical supplies to earthquake victims.
Thought I would post a story about those helping in Haiti. This story is about a co-worker's daughter.
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African Slaves First to Bring Rice to the U.S. Posted: 2 years ago by mitzuzake
Preliminary genetic research suggests that African slaves are responsible for nearly every facet of one of the first rice varieties grown in the U.S., as well as one of the most lucrative crops in early American history.
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Marine archaeologists find remains of slave ship Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands. Some 192 Africans survived the sinking of the Spanish ship Trouvadore off the British-ruled islands, where the slave trade was banned.
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Hair Stylist Keeps Armed Robber as Sex Slave Posted: 11 months ago by kakana
In what is either the weirdest Russian crime story of the year so far or a new low in yellow crime journalism, a female hair stylist in the Kaluga region is suspected of holding an armed robber in captivity as a sex slave for two days after he unsuccessfully tried to knock over her beauty salon.
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Child 'slavery' now being imported to U.S. Posted: 1 year ago by muppet
Children from at least 10 African countries were sent as maids to the U.S. and Europe. But the problem is so well hidden that authorities — including the U.N., Interpol and the State Department — have no idea how many child maids now work in the West.
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Long Island slave masters Posted: 3 years ago by Bornbad
A "monstrous" millionaire couple from Long Island's Gold Coast kept two Indonesian women as slaves for five years.
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Americans held suspected of child trafficking in Haiti Posted: 2 months ago by ThePoint
Ten American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after trying to take 33 children out of Haiti at a time of growing fear about possible child trafficking.
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Haiti - 51st US State? Posted: 2 months ago by 2manyusernames
Centuries of distrust for their own government combined with a long history of aid from the US as well as the increasingly prominent role of U.S. troops and civilians in the Haiti earthquake relief has led some Hatians to call for the US to take over their country. Some remember what has been called a "golden age" when the US occupied Haiti even if it wasn't all golden.
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HIV Arrived to US from Haiti and Not Africa Posted: 2 years ago by maxriter
HIV virus that causes AIDS presumably came into United States from Haiti somewhere around 1969, which is, in fact, a decade earlier than the majority of scientists believed.
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From Haiti, a surprise: good news about AIDS Posted: 9 months ago by kakana
In a country suffering from political upheaval and natural disasters, where three-quarters of the people can neither afford nor access private clinics or fee-based public hospitals, few could have imagined at the dawn of the AIDS crisis how far Haiti would come.
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Apple sued for indentured servitude Posted: 2 years ago by qazwer00
"the complaint claims that many Apple employees are routinely subjected to working conditions resembling indentured servitude, or 'modern day slaves,' for lack of better words."
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Human Predators Stalk Haiti's Vulnerable Kids Posted: 2 months ago by cecilberman
The quake that has killed 150,000 people has left thousands of children orphaned and consequently vulnerable to being preyed upon by child traffickers and Haiti's shameful tradition of keeping child slaves, known as restaveks.
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Scientologists 'healing' Haiti quake victims with 'magic touch' Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Volunteer ministers representing Scientology are on the ground in Haiti, spreading the gospel according to L. Ron Hubbard, and using their unique training to heal wounded Haitians through a curious Scientology massage called an "assist".
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US Mercenaries Set Sights on Haiti Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
We saw this type of Iraq-style disaster profiteering in New Orleans, and you can expect to see a lot more of this in Haiti over the coming days, weeks and months. Private security companies are seeing big dollar signs in Haiti thanks in no small part to the media hype about "looters."
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Modern Slavery in Britain: In Photographs Posted: 3 years ago by tundramonkey
As Britain prepares to commemorate 200 years since the abolition of the slave trade, a new photographic exhibition focuses on human trafficking in the UK today.
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Man Buried in Haiti Rubble Uses iPhone to Treat Wounds Posted: 2 months ago by Qpon
U.S. filmmaker Dan Woolley was shooting a documentary about the impact of poverty in Haiti when the earthquake struck. He could have died, but he ultimately survived with the help of an iPhone first-aid app that taught him to treat his wounds.
The app even warned Woolley not to fall asleep if he felt he was going into shock, so he set his cellphone’s alarm clock to go off every 20 minutes. Sixty-five hours later, a French rescue team saved him.
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Chavez says US 'weapon' caused Haiti quake Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez Wednesday accused the United States of causing the destruction in Haiti by testing a 'tectonic weapon' to induce the catastrophic earthquake that hit the country last week.
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