Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ignored are the 35 forms of torture used in Syrian prisons that have been documented by Amnesty International. Methods such as the Black Slave, the Washing Machine and the Syrian Chair are among the most horrific techniques known...
...each taping, Talvy and Harper bring 15 changes of clothing--and large water bottles. "It's like a big dance marathon," says Talvy. "Basically, it's like slave labor. It's grueling because Julie Brown takes forever to change her clothes. She has to look perfect, and we sit there waiting...
These women intimately acquainted me with areas of my history. Morrison tells the life story of former slave Sethe in her novel Beloved. Through the personal accounts and memories of Sethe, her family and her friends, Morrison made the atrocities of slavery seem real to me; slavery no longer was an institution found cradled in the yellowed pages of a worn history book. I was there when the awful events occurred...
...reclaim Sethe's children, I was there when she chose death for them rather than slavery. But if I never read her brilliant work I, like many others my age, would have been barred from sharing a tiny piece of the private pain endured by members of the slave community...
...prostitute tries to steal Port's wallet, and a loathsome Englishman filches his passport. What other atrocities can he imagine? Perhaps that he will sweat out a typhoid fever in a miserable cell in a Foreign Legion garrison? Or that his wife will lose her wits as the love slave of the sheik of Araby...