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: 11 months 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: 12 months 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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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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Hair Stylist Keeps Armed Robber as Sex Slave Posted: 8 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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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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Child 'slavery' now being imported to U.S. Posted: 11 months 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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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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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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From Haiti, a surprise: good news about AIDS Posted: 5 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: 1 year 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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Bill Clinton to be special UN envoy to Haiti Posted: 7 months ago by bingo
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.
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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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Saudis Lobby Chertoff on Behalf of Slave Owner/Rapist Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
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 2006.
Their defense then and now? He was acting in "traditional Muslim traditions". Fine. Send him down to Texas, Alabama, or Mississippii. They have a few "traditions" of their own.
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Slave passage found under Washington's home Posted: 2 years ago by kxmk
"As you enter the heaven of liberty, you literally have to cross the hell of slavery,"
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How China has created a new slave empire in Africa Posted: 1 year ago by bernardblack
Peter Hitchens writes about some of the problems in Africa and how the Chinese are treating the country and its people.
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Servant Until Death Posted: 3 months ago by Doggylives
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.
More here
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Musical History Today Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Some interesting things happened today in the world of music. As an example, The Coasters recorded "Charlie Brown", but wait there's more!
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Slave Ship to be Used as an Attraction at The Museum of Science and Industry Posted: 3 years ago by donteatpoop
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.
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New pavilion holding the Liberty Bell to honor slaves as well Posted: 3 years ago by MaskedWriter
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.
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