Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, Morse said that he has formulated a proposal calling for international action to abolish forced labor. He will present his plan, he said, for consideration at the annual ILO general conference in Geneva next June. Beyond stating that opposition to slave labor should be implemented in a formal worldwide convention, Morse declined to elaborate on his plan...
...German student who spent three and one-half years in a Soviet slave-labor camp for his anti-communist activities will study for a year at Harvard...
Born the son of a Portuguese carpenter and a Negro slave, António Francisco grew up in the 18th century gold-rush town of Ouro Preto. There, under the harsh rule of whiplashing, saber-swinging Portuguese dragoons, both blacks and whites labored to sluice and pan over $8,000,000 in gold and diamonds from the fabulous mines of Minas Gerais. Most of the gold went to the Portuguese Crown, but the little that the miners gleaned for themselves made them rich. To prove their piety, the miners embarked on a church-building spree that created some...
...said to have struck several of them off in paroxysms of pain and rage. To hide his inflamed eyelids and grotesque face, he wore an engulfing hood and broad-brimmed hat. When he could no longer walk, he was carried about on the broad back of his slave Januario. To shut out the world's curious, derisive stare, he rigged a tent around him as he worked. Once the governor of Minas Gerais dared stick his head inside the tent and O Aleijadinho (The Little Cripple, as his townsmen called him) seized his mallet and chisel and showered...
...husband is a Southern gentleman and he believes in slave labor-mine . . . but I simply can't imagine the sort of household Mr. Fischer is describing, since I do the painting, the wallpapering, the sewing, cooking, dishwashing and other such activities around here. I am genuinely glad to see Pappy come home at 5:30. Not to nag at him, either, because I think he is wonderful...