<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>You can buy a slave for $50 : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>You can buy a slave for $50 : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-11-30T05:53:56+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[You can buy a slave for $50]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55458/1/" /><id>55458</id><summary><![CDATA[You can buy a slave for $50]]></summary><issued>2008-03-24T12:59:10+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-24T12:59:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</script></div><entry><title><![CDATA[Britain's slave history going online]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18119/1/" /><id>18119</id><summary><![CDATA[Britain's slave history going online]]></summary><issued>2007-04-27T09:22:42+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-27T09:22:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New 'Fritzl horror' as woman, 55, found on remote Austrian farm where she worked as slave for last 40 years]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/89488/1/" /><id>89488</id><summary><![CDATA[New 'Fritzl horror' as woman, 55, found on remote Austrian farm where she worked as slave for last 40 years]]></summary><issued>2009-01-15T13:41:08+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-15T13:41:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A woman was forced to work as a slave on a remote Alpine farm for more than 40 years.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Michelle Obama's family: From slavery to White House]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/83790/1/" /><id>83790</id><summary><![CDATA[Michelle Obama's family: From slavery to White House]]></summary><issued>2008-12-06T18:08:36+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-06T18:08:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In January, when the Obamas move into the White House &#8212; a mansion built partially by slaves &#8212; as the country's first African-American first family, Michelle Obama will embark upon a life her great-great-grandfather never could have envisioned.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[African Slaves First to Bring Rice to the U.S.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42889/1/" /><id>42889</id><summary><![CDATA[African Slaves First to Bring Rice to the U.S.]]></summary><issued>2007-11-29T22:15:23+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-29T22:15:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Marine archaeologists find remains of slave ship]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/82891/1/" /><id>82891</id><summary><![CDATA[Marine archaeologists find remains of slave ship]]></summary><issued>2008-11-26T08:10:48+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-26T08:10:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hair Stylist Keeps Armed Robber as Sex Slave]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/107368/1/" /><id>107368</id><summary><![CDATA[Hair Stylist Keeps Armed Robber as Sex Slave]]></summary><issued>2009-04-15T15:00:18+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-15T15:00:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Child 'slavery' now being imported to U.S.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/86911/1/" /><id>86911</id><summary><![CDATA[Child 'slavery' now being imported to U.S.]]></summary><issued>2008-12-29T06:01:53+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-29T06:01:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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 &#8212; including the U.N., Interpol and the State Department &#8212; have no idea how many child maids now work in the West.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[HIV Arrived to US from Haiti and Not Africa]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/40265/1/" /><id>40265</id><summary><![CDATA[HIV Arrived to US from Haiti and Not Africa]]></summary><issued>2007-11-01T11:01:44+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-01T11:01:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Long Island slave masters]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20555/1/" /><id>20555</id><summary><![CDATA[Long Island slave masters]]></summary><issued>2007-05-16T23:49:33+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-16T23:49:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A &quot;monstrous&quot; millionaire couple from Long Island's Gold Coast kept two Indonesian women as slaves for five years.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[From Haiti, a surprise: good news about AIDS]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/126772/1/" /><id>126772</id><summary><![CDATA[From Haiti, a surprise: good news about AIDS]]></summary><issued>2009-07-05T16:16:15+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-05T16:16:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Apple sued for indentured servitude]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/71574/1/" /><id>71574</id><summary><![CDATA[Apple sued for indentured servitude]]></summary><issued>2008-08-07T13:10:22+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-07T13:10:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;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.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bill Clinton to be special UN envoy to Haiti]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/115280/1/" /><id>115280</id><summary><![CDATA[Bill Clinton to be special UN envoy to Haiti]]></summary><issued>2009-05-18T22:16:57+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-18T22:16:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[THE UN will name Bill Clinton its special envoy to Haiti, his spokesman said yesterday, in a move that could capitalize on the ex-president's years of involvement with the impoverished nation to burnish the international body's image there.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Modern Slavery in Britain: In Photographs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/11184/1/" /><id>11184</id><summary><![CDATA[Modern Slavery in Britain: In Photographs]]></summary><issued>2007-02-20T13:13:04+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-20T13:13:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Slave passage found under Washington's home]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23112/1/" /><id>23112</id><summary><![CDATA[Slave passage found under Washington's home]]></summary><issued>2007-06-07T23:28:47+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-07T23:28:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;As you enter the heaven of liberty, you literally have to cross the hell of slavery,&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How China has created a new slave empire in Africa]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/77984/1/" /><id>77984</id><summary><![CDATA[How China has created a new slave empire in Africa]]></summary><issued>2008-09-28T14:14:00+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-28T14:14:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Peter Hitchens writes about some of the problems in Africa and how the Chinese are treating the country and its people.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Servant Until Death]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/132739/1/" /><id>132739</id><summary><![CDATA[Servant Until Death]]></summary><issued>2009-09-10T08:38:35+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-10T08:38:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Here's an incredibly interesting letter from 1857, written by a lady called Vilet Lester and sent to someone by the name of Patsey Patterson. Vilet Lester was a slave and prior to this letter being written had at some point been owned by the Patterson family before moving on.<br/><br/>More <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/lester/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Saudis Lobby Chertoff on Behalf of Slave Owner/Rapist]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/56188/1/" /><id>56188</id><summary><![CDATA[Saudis Lobby Chertoff on Behalf of Slave Owner/Rapist]]></summary><issued>2008-03-28T22:07:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-28T22:07:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A representative of the Saudi Arabia government is trying to lobby for the review of this rapist/slave owner sentenced to 20-to-life in <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/home/article/0,1299,DRMN_1_4959102,00.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">2006</a>.<br/><br/>Their defense then and now? He was acting in &quot;traditional Muslim traditions&quot;. Fine. Send him down to Texas, Alabama, or Mississippii. They have a few &quot;traditions&quot; of their own.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Musical History Today]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43830/1/" /><id>43830</id><summary><![CDATA[Musical History Today]]></summary><issued>2007-12-11T00:42:14+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-11T00:42:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Some interesting things happened today in the world of music. As an example, The Coasters recorded <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/lyrics2/nov_charlbrown.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">&quot;Charlie Brown&quot;</a>, but wait there's more!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Slave Ship to be Used as an Attraction at The Museum of Science and Industry]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/5806/1/" /><id>5806</id><summary><![CDATA[Slave Ship to be Used as an Attraction at The Museum of Science and Industry]]></summary><issued>2006-11-14T19:30:56+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-14T19:30:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Well, it was a pirate ship too. But there are several parties up in arms about putting it on display as it was also a slave ship.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New pavilion holding the Liberty Bell to honor slaves as well]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/11953/1/" /><id>11953</id><summary><![CDATA[New pavilion holding the Liberty Bell to honor slaves as well]]></summary><issued>2007-03-01T12:08:02+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-01T12:08:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In addition to the Liberty Bell, there will be a new exhibit honoring the work and efforts made by the slaves of the era as well as showing what their daily lives were like.]]></content></entry></feed>