Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Relying on reports from 26 locations round the globe, our story tracks this new slave trade from Nepal's Himalayan villages to the mining towns of the Amazon and on to West European strip clubs. "This story demonstrates our global reach and knowledge," says senior editor Christopher Redman, who coordinated the report from his office in Brussels. "We got up close to a difficult subject most people don't want to talk about...
Readers often ask where we get our ideas. In this instance, it began with a report of a Belgium-based slave-trade ring and with news out of Eastern Europe that young women were bartering themselves as brides in exchange for a life in the more affluent West. While some of these marriages produced happy endings, contributor Frederick Painton was struck by the fact that the majority of women who leaped into these unions did so out of economic desperation. Reporters fanned out to probe the phenomenon. At the same time, assistant picture editor Jay Colton came across moving photos...
...family. His entrapment is a comment on Victorian class structures, from which, through an unexpected twist of the plot, he is ultimately able to escape by returning to the Amazon. Byatt makes subtle use of the American Civil War as background both to the ants' warfare and slave-making, and to the inhuman treatment of one of the family servants by her employers...
...small percentage of their respective races. The U.S. visa application process favors highly educated professionals and aggressive working class applicants. These people have a drive to succeed which they likely transmit to their children. There was no such selection process in order to become an American or West Indian slave. Seen in this light, higher academic achievement is not a reflection of cultural values, but of the shifting process of entry into American...
...every day. The novel veers to turn-of- the-millennium Berlin, where a writer named Steve Erickson is murdered, then to an old recluse named Tom in the American desert, then to what must be early 19th century Monticello, where Jefferson and John Adams jaw dispiritedly about a vast slave rebellion that has taken over Virginia...