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Plundered and corrupted for 200 years, Haiti was doomed to end in anarchy | Kenan Malik
Successive foreign governments plunged it into unpayable debt and left its citizens in penury
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Slaves freed from S. Korean salt farms face misery in shelters
A government official, foreground, meets with salt farm owners and workers as a part of human rights inspection on Sinui Island, South Korea. Life as a salt-farm slave was so bad Kim Jong-seok sometimes fantasized about killing the owner who beat him daily. Freedom, he says, has been worse. In the year since police emancipated the severely mentally disabled man from the farm where he had worked for eight years, Kim has lived in...
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Building the First Slavery Museum in America
Louisiana’s River Road runs northwest from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, its two lanes snaking some 100 miles along the Mississippi and through a contradictory stretch of America. Flat and fertile, with oaks webbed in Spanish moss, the landscape stands in defiance of the numerous oil refineries and petrochemical plants that threaten its natural splendor. In the rust-scabbed towns of clapboard homes, you are reminded that Louisiana is the eighth-poorest state...
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Ben Affleck had slave owner censored from family tree: Sony
The TV host expressed concern that Affleck's request could tarnish their branding and would be a violation of PBS rules, 'even for Batman.'
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Thai trafficking crisis: Thousands held in offshore and jungle camps
What needs to happen now is the immediate and regionally coordinated rescue of the boat loads of people in desperate conditions.
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Grim History Traced in Sunken Slave Ship Found Off South Africa
On Dec. 3, 1794, a Portuguese slave ship left Mozambique, on the east coast of Africa, for what was to be a 7,000-mile voyage to Maranhão, Brazil, and the sugar plantations that awaited its cargo of black men and women. Shackled in the ship’s hold were between 400 and 500 slaves, pressed flesh to flesh with their backs on the floor. With the exception of daily breaks to exercise, the slaves were to spend the bulk of the estimated four-month journey from the Indian Ocean across the...
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Myanmar fisherman goes home after 22 years as a slave
TUAL, Indonesia (AP) — All he did was ask to go home. The last time the Burmese slave made the same request, he was beaten almost to death. But after being gone eight years and forced to work on a boat in faraway Indonesia, Myint Naing was willing to risk everything to see his mother again. His nights were filled with dreams of her, and time was slowly stealing her face from his memory.
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Forty Years a Slave
Female slaves in Mauritania have long suffered unimaginable pain and torment. Some are now free and have found the courage to speak out about their ordeals and their new lives.
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U.S. upgrades Malaysia in annual human trafficking report
The United States is upgrading Malaysia from the lowest tier on its list of worst human trafficking centers, U.S. sources said on Wednesday, a move that could smooth the way for an ambitious U.S.-led free-trade deal with the Southeast Asian nation and 11 other countries...
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The history of British slave ownership has been buried: now its scale can be revealed
A new BBC documentary tells how a trove of documents lays bare the names of Britain’s 46,000 slave owners, including relatives of Gladstone and Orwell.
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[Thai] General, police among 72 indicted for human-trafficking
Prosecutors on Friday moved to indict 72 people, including a senior army officer, in a multinational human-trafficking ring revealed when dozens of bodies were unearthed in the jungles of Songkhla province.
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The New American Slavery
Invited to the U.S., foreign workers find a nightmare. By Jessica Garrison, Ken Bensinger and Jeremy Singer-Vine.
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Child labour on Nestlé farms: chocolate giant’s problems continue
Auditors completing their annual report continue to find evidence of child labour on Ivory Coast farms supplying Nestlé. By Joe Sandler Clarke.
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'Slave Trade' video game altered after social media backlash
An educational video game has been edited following a social media backlash over a scene depicting slaves being packed into a ship. The creators of "Playing History: Slave Trade" removed a level Monday which featured black slave characters being dropped into a ship similar to the video game "Tetris." "Apologies to people who were offended by us using game mechanics to underline the point of how inhumane slavery was," read a statement posted on the game's page...
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September 22nd 1862 - Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery.
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John Brown's Fort
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands
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The Islamic State Is Raping 8-Year-Olds. And the World Is Doing Nothing.
Last week I arrived back home to Iraqi Kurdistan, exhausted but proud of a small but real triumph over the Islamic State. Three women and two toddlers came back with me—five human beings just rescued from enslavement by ISIL. For over a year, they were abused, raped and traded fighter to fighter because of one reason: our Yazid religion. I am determined to save every last one of the more than 2,000 Yazidi women...
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The Civil War Almost Didn’t End Slavery
On the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment, we should reflect on the arduous battle to rid the nation once and for all of the ‘peculiar institution.’ By Kevin M. Levin.
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Our Forgotten Labor Revolution
After the Civil War, workers struggled to make wage labor go the way of chattel slavery.
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Palaces, Penises, and Parties With the Young Jet Set
Forty-eight hours in Gstaad, made for Instagram. By Maureen O'Connor.
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