Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March 23, the Geneva-based International Labor Organization reports that tens of millions of people around the globe, including children as young as six, are working in bondage -- in dangerous and degrading conditions that often involve 18-hour workdays, beatings and sexual abuse. Many are the victims of opportunistic slave raiders, sometimes called "child catchers" and "cats," who roam impoverished or war-ravaged regions kidnapping, buying or luring helpless prospects into servitude...
Virginia, the house committee chair, kept promising me it would happen. "Wait until Secret Santa. You'll never even visit other houses. It'll make you a K-House slave forever." Well, I still visit other houses, but Virginia had a point. Holiday spirit is the crucible of Kirkland. Survive it, and you become one of the K-House elect...
...tidal score more than a story of comic abduction, spousal warfare, anachronistic feminism and subtle slapstick. In this opera, one Bey of Algiers, Mustafa, seeks to rid himself of his dull wife. Elvira and replace her with the kidnapped Isabella, an Italian femme fatale. Enter Lindoro, a hapless Italian slave who just happens to be the lover of Isabella. With the cooperation of an unlucky suitor and the assistance of Elvira, Isabella and Lindoro escape to Italy together by means of an outragerous contrivance, leaving Mustafa and Elvira reunited...
...longer of any value as a qualifier, and, furthermore, he ought to have notified his audience of his divergent use of the term. Perhaps, alternatively, Muhammad is suggesting that Western history did not begin until the period when a sufficient number of Blacks had been imported as slaves, such that they could have a significant influence. However, although the course of Western history was dramatically effected by Western society's reliance on the slave trade, a society already existed to be affected. Hundreds of years of its own history had brought Western society to the juncture at which it chose...
...inherently laid-back, rhythmic and athletic. Yet in spite of these inescapable dangers, Muhammad does not even recognize the possibility of reaching for such truth. Instead he condemns the presence of white faculty in the Afro-American studies department: "What a slap in the face to bring in the slave master's son or slave master's daughter and to tell of the history they helped destroy." Clearly, this condemnation is grounded in the implicit assumption that the truth is entirely subjective, that history will not be told the same way by a white individuals as by a black...