Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President today discussed his proposed all-Africa peacekeeping force with Senegal's President Abdou Diouf, one of its most enthusiastic supporters. Tomorrow Clinton visits Goree Island, the slave-trade embarkation point, to make the closing speech of his trip. Don't expect an apology for slavery: Asked about the much-hyped issue earlier this week, the President said, "Most of my African-American friends and advisers... think we need to be looking toward the future...
...when I stood in The Door of No Return for the first time, nearly 20 years ago. Bill Clinton will too, when Joseph Ndiaye, the 74-year-old curator, holds up a rusty set of chains and begins his matter-of-fact recital of the mundane facts about the slave trade that flourished on Goree Island for more than 200 hundred years...
That little speck of rock in the harbor of Dakar, Senegal, is the black-American equivalent of Auschwitz or Treblinka, a blood-drenched monument to a genocidal past that all too often is ignored. On it stands the House of Slaves, where tens of thousands of Africans were herded into cramped holding pens to be fattened up for the Middle Passage to a life of slavery in the New World. Their last contact with the African motherland came at the Door of No Return, where they were whipped across a narrow gangplank to the slave ships...
Last week an activist group called the National Labor Committee accused Nike and other companies of running virtual slave factories in China, alleging that workers are habitually overworked and underpaid. It's the kind of charge Nike has faced, and denied, repeatedly regarding its operations in Asia. Nike subcontractors employ nearly 500,000 workers in plants in Indonesia, China and Vietnam...
...schoolyard shooting in Arkansas, there was other news out there. The NYT led with a green-card snafu at INS, and WP and LAT went with President Clinton's sounded-awfully-like-an-apology-but-wasn't remarks in Uganda over how the U.S. "wronged" Africa with the slave trade. Apparently the comments were impromptu, and are giving aides fits...