<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : slaves : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2010, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : slaves : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese fathers of child slaves seek help online]]></title><description><![CDATA[About 400 Chinese men whose children were sold to work as slaves at brickworks were seeking help online after risking their lives and spending all their savings in a mostly futile search, media reported on Wednesday.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/23763/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/23763/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[New Find In Egypt Reveals Slaves Didn't Build Pyramids]]></title><description><![CDATA[Egypt displayed on Monday newly discovered tombs more than 4,000 years old and said they belonged to people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza, presenting the discovery as more evidence that slaves did not build the ancient monuments.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/137658/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/137658/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[African Slaves First to Bring Rice to the U.S.]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42889/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42889/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Michelle Obama's family: From slavery to White House]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/83790/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/83790/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Rep. Trent Franks: Slavery wasn't as devastating to blacks as legalized abortion is.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arizona Congressman Trent Franks may have really put his foot in his mouth now. Forget that he sees muslim spies in congress or that he is a birther, or feels <i>Roe v Wade</i> was the greatest holocaust, he has surpassed himself with the idea that blacks were better off as slaves than they are today with legal abortion.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/139214/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/139214/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple sued for indentured servitude]]></title><description><![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;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/71574/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/71574/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians find new proof on sex slaves ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Evidence submitted to the post-World War II trials of Japanese war criminals shows Japan's military forced Asian women into sexual slavery during the war, historians said Tuesday, citing newly unearthed documents.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16852/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16852/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[You can buy a slave for $50]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55458/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55458/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[21st-Century Slaves]]></title><description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re not in chains, but they are shackled by debt, paid virtually nothing and treated harshly. Pete Pattisson goes to India to capture the face of slavery today in our Spring 2009 photo essay.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/124559/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/124559/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Al Sharpton's Ancestors Were Slaves Owned by Strom Thurmond's Relatives]]></title><description><![CDATA[Genealogists have found that civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton is a descendent of a slave owned by relatives of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond. Says Sharpton, &quot;nothing could prepeare me for this news&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/11597/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/11597/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Human Predators Stalk Haiti's Vulnerable Kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/138271/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/138271/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Extortionist Claims &quot;Dr. Phil&quot; Episode Sparked Sex-Slave Scam Plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Extortion. Sex slaves. Breast implants. Fetish websites. Dr. Phil. This story has it all!<br/><br/>An extensive &quot;sugar daddy&quot; extortion plot that targeted a Greenwich millionaire's secret online world in which women were his slaves and he was their master all started after an Ohio couple watched an episode of television's &quot;Dr. Phil,&quot; according to newly released police reports.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/131346/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/131346/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[President's slaves finally receive a funeral -- 200 years late]]></title><description><![CDATA[When George Washington was President and Philadelphia was the nation's capital, Washington's slaves lived with him in the north. Eulogies for the nine slaves were part of a formal ceremony paying tribute to their lives -- and deaths.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26130/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26130/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[New pavilion holding the Liberty Bell to honor slaves as well]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/11953/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/11953/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern Slavery in Britain: In Photographs]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/11184/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/11184/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Child 'slavery' now being imported to U.S.]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/86911/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/86911/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fed is all around us.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just like The Matrix, all we are to them is a battery.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/78306/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/78306/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Abandoned on a Tiny Shadeless Island for 15 years ]]></title><description><![CDATA[On July 31, 1761, the French ship L&#8217;Utile is shipwrecked on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. Only a handful of survivors remain when they are found 15 years later, in 1776.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18278/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18278/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Tokyo maintains hard line on 'comfort women']]></title><description><![CDATA[A DIPLOMATIC furore over Japan's wartime brothels looked unlikely to fade after Tokyo said a 14-year-old study had found no evidence the government or military officials had kidnapped women to act as prostitutes.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13346/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13346/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Slave Ship to be Used as an Attraction at The Museum of Science and Industry]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/5806/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/5806/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>