Word: slaving
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...ships first called on Champa, the powerful Hindu kingdom had dominated central Vietnam for more than 1,000 years. The haven described by the fleet's Chinese chronicler Ma Huan was the rough port town of Qui Nhon, where sarong-wearing, wiry-haired Cham ivory merchants and slave traders plied their wares. Yet in 1471, less than 70 years later, the northern Annam kingdom of ethnic Vietnamese conquered the Chams, driving them south and scattering them. Some remained Hindu but many in Cambodia and southern Vietnam later converted to Islam en masse, and their ancient culture was nearly forgot...
...called Kerekou “a real pioneer” for trying to establish the truth about African involvement in the slave trade...
Gates praised Kerekou’s “personal reconciliation movement” which calls for African nations to apologize to African Americans for their role in the American slave trade...
...good reason: how else to guarantee that the people who will lead our schools and teach our kids are qualified to do so? And shouldn't education, like law and medicine, be a considered a profession? Nobody complains about forcing lawyers to pass the Bar Exam or doctors to slave through at least four years of training before being given the license to operate...
...ocean liners. They turn, but they turn slowly," says Joseph Bentivegna, an Avid vice president. "By staying nimble, we've been able to keep ahead." For example, when actor Oliver Reed died during the filming of Gladiator, director Ridley Scott didn't panic. His team recycled shots of the slave trainer and, with the help of Avid software, produced two scenes starring Reed...