Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dial brothers got their slaves from jails. They paid the Negroes' fines, drove them home to work on the Dial farms near Boyd, Ala., and kept them there by force. Fred Dial beat one with a lariat, and soon afterward the man died of pneumonia. When the slave's mother got possession of his body, she saw the cuts and bruises on it and asked her white employer for help. He told authorities, and the FBI moved...
...almost a century the Dutch prospered in sugar and the slave trade. But when they turned their attention to Java and Sumatra in the East Indies in the 19th century, the western colonies languished. The long-term investment in the west did not pay off until 40 years ago, when vast bauxite deposits were found in Surinam, and Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo oilfields were opened. During World War II, Surinam provided 60% of the U.S.'s bauxite needs for aluminum. Huge oil refineries on Curaçao and Aruba processed 72% of the crude produced in Venezuela. With...
...race" were manufacturing iron while their contemporaries in Europe still were dabbling with bronze . . . and that if Africa is a dark continent, it was the "Christian guardians" who plunged it into darkness. Those "guardians" [who] destroyed a fine young civilization by the wholesale kidnaping of its members for the slave trade...
...trials were the legal facade for a vast purge in which half a million Russians are believed to have been shot and another 7,000,000 sent to slave camps. Britain's Laborite Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said later: "I cannot look him in the face without expecting at any moment to see that cruel mouth begin to drip with the blood of his thousands of victims...
...against rough treatment for the soviets brought charges of "sympathizer," and an eventual clash with Congressman Rankin's Un-American Activities committee. "The insinuations were unbelievable," Shapley recalls, "I'm as strong an anti-communist as the average American, probably more so." With a grandfather who was an underground slave runner, Shapley believes in "vigorous citizenship--and I've got three hundred years of ancestors to back...