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Titled The Gulag Archipelago,* the book is based on Solzhenitsyn's eleven years in prisons, concentration camps and exile, as well as letters that he received from ex-prisoners and interviews that he conducted with 227 survivors of slave-labor camps. Last week, as the Russian text appeared in Paris, and the New York Times began syndicating a 10,000-word excerpt, Gulag struck its early readers as both a literary masterwork and an unparalleled indictment of the Soviet regime...
...aftermath of the Attica rebellion has only reaffirmed the justice of the prisoners' protest. Roger Champen, an Attica inmate during the revolt, told a Harvard audience last week that New York has done nothing to relieve the conditions which led to the outbreak: slave wages for prison labor, inedible food, guard brutality, restricted political and religious expression, censorship of mail, poor health care and inadequate educational facilities. Only the number of guards has been increased...
...yearly export of merchandise from Great Britain to Africa, most of which was used in slave trade, increased by more than ten times between the first and last decade of the 18th century...
Liverpool was built up mainly as a center for slave trade and eventually helped stimulate the industrial revolution in Manchester and nearby towns...
...cotton, the plantation as an economic unit achieved prominence. The new plantation economy brought Africa into the foreground because plantation owners were quick to adopt forced labor for their main work-force. Slavery became one of the basic economic institutions of a large part of world production, and transatlantic slave trade became a booming business for English, New England and French merchants...