Word: slaving
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India's newspapers grumbled at this "blot upon our escutcheon," and demanded "a clean and speedy sweep of this evil" from Indian soil. It may not be easy: most slave-owning NEFA tribesmen firmly believe that, no matter how wicked a man may be, his riches will accompany him from this life to the next. Thus, if he owns slaves in this world, he will have slaves to attend him in heaven...
...this point in The Chess Players. Her great sedative skill can be appreciated only when it is understood that her material, as such, is fascinating. The novel is set in New Orleans and Paris in the 1850s and '60s, contains an amorous princess, various spies and diplomats, a slave auctioneer, lovely Creole maidens, and splendidly uniformed military personnel. The hero is a brilliant, brooding fellow who becomes the world chess champion and then chucks it all for love of a faithless woman...
...17th century bronzes (some of which depict Portuguese traders) are now among Africa's most treasured art objects. To the Portuguese-and the English who eventually displaced them-Nigeria's most valuable commodity was its people. Between 1562 (when Sir John Hawkins carried Britain's first slave cargo to Haiti) and 1862 (when the last Nigerian was sold in the U.S. South), Nigeria's chiefs sold so many hundreds of thousands of their countrymen into slavery in the New World that Nigeria became known as the Slave Coast...
...there have been many difficulties. Some of the poorer hospitals exploit the visiting doctors as semi-slave labor, e.g., to replace orderlies; and they offer the foreigners little professional training. Thus treated, the foreign doctor is often a liability to patients in his care...
...play's only action takes place with the arrival in each of the two acts of Pozzo, the tyrannical overlord, and Lucky, his equally brutal slave. Lucky is an artist: in the first act he performs a grotesque dance, and, when commanded by Pozzo to think, makes his only speech, "Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattman of a personal God quaquaquaqua outside time without extension who from the height of divine aphasia loves us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown but time will tell and suffers like the divine Miranda with...