Word: slaving
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Robert Harms, a professor of African studies and history at Yale, won the first place Douglass Prize for his book about a French slaving voyage entitled The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. Harms will receive a medallion and $15,000 while Stauffer will win a medallion...
...suspect, the war on terrorism will look nothing like World War II or the cold war but rather like the 50-year fight to end the Atlantic slave trade in the first half of the 19th century. That was a priority for many nations, but it never defined the national interest of any one of them. The occasional use of military power against slavers--usually by Britain's Royal Navy, which held a position like that now enjoyed by U.S. forces--was important to the cause. But so were moral persuasion, multilateral diplomacy, economic development and bribes. All will prove...
Ending the slave trade was a noble undertaking. So is the war on terrorism. But we cannot allow it to define who we are or to shape all the ways in which we act in the world. If we do so--to use the old refrain--the terrorists really will have...
...mines.) In August 2001 a Kyoto court awarded compensation to 15 Korean workers forced aboard a naval ship that subsequently exploded and sank in 1945. And last year, a Tokyo court ordered the government to pay $170,000 to the son of the late Liu Lien-yen, a slave worker from China who escaped in July 1945 and spent the next 13 years living in the mountains of northern Hokkaido, unaware that Emperor Hirohito had surrendered...
...UNDER INVESTIGATION. LENI RIEFENSTAHL, 100, Adolf Hitler's favorite filmmaker and cinematic chronicler of Nazi Germany who later turned to underwater photography; for Holocaust denial; in Frankfurt. Riefenstahl, who celebrated her centennial last week, is being sued by a Gypsy organization for dismissing allegations that Gypsy slave laborers used as extras in her 1943 film Tiefland were later returned to concentration camps...