Word: slave
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...that night there was a video of one on TV. She holds her hands together as if cuffed. "I saw how people were being tied like animals," she says, "and I thought, When it happens to me, my daughter will watch as the agents carry me off like a slave." Now tears well...
...floor of her dimly lit stone hut as chickens and small children wander outside the door, Akuma describes the day when rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) came to her home to murder two of her sons and abduct her daughter to be a sex slave. Since then, the years have been a blur to the 60-year-old widow. And many who have suffered like her through the 20-year civil war just want to go home. Even if the cost is justice...
...Indeed it is. The first computer was built in Manchester and it was one of the first cities to call for both an end to the slave trade and the right of women to vote. It was also the world's first industrial city, the crucible of a revolution that went on to transform the world. But while industry has been Manchester's most enduring legacy, its decline has left the city with a reputation problem, much like such other once-mighty industrial centers as Detroit and Rotterdam. Gone were the conglomerates, manufacturers and innovators of past, replaced by derelict...
...tormented?" Liu also noted that "nobody would believe that such atrocities... are happening in today's China - 58 years after the Communist Party-led revolution put an end to the old society." Another columnist in the same paper praised the role of a provincial newspaper reporter in exposing the slave trade and argued that China needed more investigative journalism...
...seem strange that a white boy from the suburbs of Los Angeles would find strength in a song that was born out of the African Diaspora. My ancestors did not come to America on slave ships. They were not threatened, lynched, or discriminated against because of the color of their skin. They did not sing Negro spirituals...