Word: slaving
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...whether Swiss aid money was wrongfully deposited in Swiss banks during the 23-year reign of deposed President Moussa Traore. Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida has a bolder if unrealistic idea: he suggested last year that African states might demand reparations from the West for the damage done by the slave trade. The estimated cost: $130 trillion in loss of people and production potential over the centuries. The estimated chance of success: zero...
...address, delivered on June 16, when Lincoln was nominated as a senatorial candidate in Illinois to oppose Democrat Stephen Douglas, made headlines. What Lincoln said in Springfield -- that a nation half slave, half free was not permanently tenable -- proclaimed his no-compromise stand...
...archaeologists have found evidence to suggest that the burial ground -- the only such pre-Revolutionary cemetery known in the U.S. -- is one of the most significant discoveries of the century. Studies of children's skeletons, for example, indicate that as much as 50% of New York City's slave population died at birth or within the first years of life...
...scene in which Walt Disney calls for the extermination of Blacks. Disney's gruesome speech combines echoes of Pinocchio, Martin Luther King Jr. and the KKK: "I wished upon a star--that one day wondrous shopping mall, beneath the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slave owners would dine on the sons of former salves, secure in the knowledge that their silverware was safe from theft...
Laws condemning "baby-selling" only increase the surrogate mother's dilemma: paradoxically, while the courts often view her as a selfish contract-breaker when she sues for some type of parental rights, this new law also condemns her as a selfish slave-trader when she consents to be compensated for the child's loss...