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...Rise of African Slavery in the Americas written by Queens University of Ontario Professor David Eltis. The book was chosen for its ground-breaking scholarship showing that it was the strength and prosperity of the African nation-states, rather any weakness or poverty, that shaped the Atlantic slave trade and forced the Europeans to accommodate themselves to African customs and economics. The book also seeks to understand why Europe, the champion of individual freedom, helped to create the most pervasive system of slavery in history...
TIME: Yes, but how is it that hundreds of years after the abolition of serfdom in western Europe, western European nations engaged in the slave trade and slavery flourished in the New World? And why did it take so long for the idea of abolition to take hold in this country and the Caribbean, considering that Western Europeans had abolished slavery and serfdom among themselves...
...captain who has had to scramble for good gigs. "But corporate greed is trying to kill the middle class. So what do you get? The teachers, the actors, the MTA in California. Everyone is on strike." Gebhart wants to locate the strike in the gut of, say, a wage slave who sees his company making millions while he can't make the mortgage. "This strike isn't hurting the celebrity, or the bartender/actor who does one commercial a year. But it will completely obliterate the middle-class actor. It'll make him a hobbyist...
Frances Bok, a former Sudanese slave who spoke at the ceremony, said that he deeply appreciated Williams's work...
...These Arabs go into the north and purchase, steal or help runaway slaves," Williams says. "We pay the raiders 50,000 Sudanese pounds for each slave they redeem. On this mission, we liberated...