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WAZ-IFJ Prize for Courage in Journalism Goes to a Team of Hungarian Authors2010-12-07
International Federation of Journalists
The WAZ Media Group and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) will present the team of Hungarian authors József Gelei (50) and László Murányi (54) the "WAZ-IFJ Prize for Courage in Journal...
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Abolition of Slavery TimelineConnexipedia Article
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Timelines tracing abolition in specific countries, abolition of the trade in slaves and abolition throughout empires.
AbolitionismConnexipedia Article
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A movement in Western Europe and the Americas to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves.
African Migrants Bought and Sold Openly in 'Slave Markets' in LibyaKamal, Baher
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2017
Inter Press Ervice News Agency
Hundreds of migrants along North African migration routes are being bought and sold openly in modern day 'slave markets' in Libya, survivors have told the United Nations migration agency, which warned...
African slave tradeSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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African slaves became part of the Atlantic slave trade, from which comes the modern, Western conception of slavery, as an institution of African-descended slaves and non-African slave owners.
The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.
Kahn, Andrew and Bouie, Jamelle
Article
2015
Slate.com
Usually, when we say "American slavery" or the "American slave trade," we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But North America was a bit player. From the trade's beginning in the...
The Case for Haitian ReparationsAlcenat, Westenley
Article
2017
Jacobin
A history of France's exploitation of colonial Haiti, the aftermath of Haiti's independence, and the lasting social and environmental impacts, arguing for Haiti's recent demands of reparations from t...
A century of sugar and tearsGuadeloupe has bulit a slavery memorial centre on the site of a gigantic sugar refinery, believing it's necessary to acknowledge
Denis, Jacques
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2015
Le Monde diplomatic
Present day Guadeloupei s coming to terms with a grim past through the Caribbean Centre of Expression and Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade (MACTe), a new museum and memorial built symbolically on...
Cherokee freedmen controversySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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An ongoing political and tribal dispute between the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and descendants of the Cherokee Freedmen regarding tribal citizenship.
The Clintons Had SlavesBut the prison labor system is also rotten to the core...
Robinson, Nathan J.
Article
2017
Current Affairs
The prison labour system in the United States has long been an unacknowledged scandal and is in fact as a form of slavery; among the beneficiaries of this prison labour system were Bill and Hillary Cl...
Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism FocusWebsite
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their FreedomGrant, Richard; photographs by Allison Shelley
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2016
Smithsonian Institution
The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways. Archaeologists are learning more about their free communities.
Destroying the CommonsHow the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
Chomsky, Noam
Article
2012
TomDispatch
Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack.
DevsirmeWikipedia article
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Devsirme (literally collecting in Turkish) was chiefly the practice by which the Ottoman Empire took sons from their Balkan Christian every year. They were then converted to Islam with the primary obj...
Django Unchained, or, The Help: How "Cultural Politics" Is Worse Than No Politics at All, and Why Reed, Adolph Jr.
Article
2013
NonSite
On reflection, it's possible to see that Django Unchained and The Help are basically different versions of the same movie. Both dissolve political economy and social relations into individual quests a...
Ethiopian workers 'beaten and robbed' by Saudi policeArticle
2017
Al Jazeera
A group of undocumented Ethiopians told The Associated Press news agency that after being captured by Saudi police officers they were subject to serious abuses, including beatings and filthy prison co...
Francis Daniel PastoriusArticle
2017
Wikipedia.com
Francis Daniel Pastorius (September 26, 1651-1720) was a German born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official, who is particularly known for his anti-slavery advocacy.
History of slaverySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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The history of slavery covers systems throughout human history in which one human being is legally the property of another, can be bought or sold, is not allowed to escape and must work for the owner ...
An introduction to the Indian Ocean slave tradeWilliams, Karen
Article
2016
Media Diversified
The Indian Ocean slave trade encompassed Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with people from these areas involved as both captors and captives. The numbers of people enslaved and the exact length of th...
The Irish Slaves: What They Will Never, Ever Tell You in History Class or Anywhere ElseArticle
2013
http://radio2hot.wordpress.com
The first slaves imported into the American colonies were 100 White children. They arrived during Easter, 1619, four months before the arrival of a the first shipment of Black slaves. Mainstream histo...
ISIS Slave Market Puts Women and Girls on Same List as CattleEnsler, Eve
Article
2015
La Repubblica
I am thinking of the price list leaked out from the ISIS Sex Slave Market that included women and girls on the same list as cattle. ISIS needed to impose price controls as they were worried about a do...
Islam and slaverySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Historically, the major juristic schools of Islam traditionally accepted the institution of slavery. The Islamic prophet Muhammad and many of his companions bought, sold, freed, and captured slaves.
Judaism and slaverySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Judaism's religious texts contain numerous laws governing the ownership and treatment of slaves.
Labour campSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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A labour camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor. Labour camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons.
Lincoln, AbrahamConnexipedia Article
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President of the United States during the American Civil War. (1809-1865).
A Marxist History of the World part 57: The American Civil WarFaulkner, Neil
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2012
Counterfire
One hundred and fifty years ago North America saw the start of a revolutionary war fought between rival systems and opposing political ideologies. Neil Faulkner looks at The American Civil War.
The Not-So-Secret History of CapitalismMalik, Kenan
Article
2013
Pandaemonium
This is a coda to my review of Paul Collier’s book Exodus. I questioned the moral and social arguments that Collier employs to justify his arguments, and suggested that there is often a chasm between ...
OdalisqueArticle
An odalisque (Turkish: Odal?k) was a female slave in an Ottoman seraglio. She was an assistant or apprentice to the concubines and wives, and she might rise in status to become one of them. Most odali...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 2, 2014Climate Change
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2014
Connexions
This issue of Other Voices looks at why so many people deny or ignore the very real and very near threat of climate change. We also look into the ways on how NGOs tame and undermine grassroots movemen...
Sexual slaverySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Sexual slavery or forced sexual slavery is the organized coercion of unwilling people into different sexual practices.
1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against SlaveryWikipedia article
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2017
The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against African-American slavery made by a religious body in the English colonies.
SlaverySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery is a system in which human beings are the property of others. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to re...
Slavery, Genocide, Abuse: The Dark Side of Asia's 'Tiger Economies'Bello, Walden
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2015
Toward Freedom
From declining worker protections to violent labour trafficking and ethnic cleansing, the dark underbelly of Southeast Asia's "tiger economies" is on full display this year.
Slavery in ancient GreeceSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery was common practice and an integral component of ancient Greece throughout its rich history, as it was in other societies of the time including ancient Israel and early Christian societies.
Slavery in ancient RomeSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery in antiquitySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery in the ancient world, specifically, in Mediterranean cultures, comprised a mixture of debt-slavery, slavery as a punishment for crime, and the enslavement of prisoners of war.
Slavery in BrazilSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery in Brazil shaped the country's social structure and ethnic landscape. During the colonial epoch and for over six decades after the 1822 independence, slavery was a mainstay of the Brazilian ec...
Slavery in Britain and IrelandSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery in Britain and Ireland dated from before Roman occupation. Chattel slavery virtually disappeared after the Norman Conquest. It was finally abolished by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (which ma...
Slavery in CanadaSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery in what now comprises Canada existed into the 1830s, when slavery was officially abolished. Some slaves were of African descent, while others were aboriginal (typically called panis, likely a ...
Slavery in IndiaSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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The history of slavery in India is complicated by the presence of factors which relate to the definition, ideological and religious perceptions, difficulties in obtaining and interpreting written sour...
Slavery in IranSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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A History of slavery in Iran during various ancient, medieval and modern periods is catalogued by archaeological and historical records.
Slavery in JapanSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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During most of the history of the country, the practice of slavery in Japan involved only indigenous Japanese, as the export and import of slaves was significantly restricted by isolation of the group...
Slavery in LibyaSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery in Libya has a long history and a lasting impact on the Libyan culture. Slavery in Libya is closely connected with the wider context of slavery in north Africa.
Slavery in MauritaniaSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery in Mauritania is an entrenched phenomenon the national government has repeatedly tried to abolish, banning the practice in 1905, 1981, and August 2007. The descendants of black Africans abduct...
Slavery in medieval EuropeSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery in early medieval Europe was relatively common. It was widespread at the end of antiquity. The etymology of the word slave comes from this period, the word sklabos meaning Slav.
Slavery in modern AfricaSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery in Africa continues today. Slavery existed in Africa before the arrival of Europeans - as did a slave trade that exported millions of Africans to North Africa, the Middle East, and the Persian...
Slavery in RomaniaSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery (Romanian: robie) existed on the territory of present-day Romania from before the founding of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia in 13th–14th century, until it was abolished in sta...
Slavery in SudanSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Since 1995, international rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and CASMAS have reported that slavery in Sudan is a common fate of captives in the Second Sudanese Civil War. Pro-government m...
Slavery in the Ottoman EmpireSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery was an important part of Ottoman society until the Ottoman Empire forbade the slavery of Caucasians (including Georgians, Armenians, and Circassians) in the early 19th century.
Slavery in the Spanish New World coloniesSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery in the Spanish colonies began with the enslavement of the local indigenous peoples in their homelands. Enslavement and production quotas were used to force the local labor to bring a return on...
Slavery in the United StatesSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery in the United States was a form of unfree labor which existed as a legal institution in North America for more than a century before the founding of the United States in 1776, and continued mo...
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism - Book ReviewEdward E. Baptist’s "The Half Has Never Been Told"
Larson, Charles R.
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2014
CounterPunch
A review of Edward E. Baptist’s examination of slavery, presented in an entirely new way, extensively through the voices of the slaves themselves.
Slavery on the Barbary CoastSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery on the Barbary Coast was a form of unfree labour which existed between the 16th and 18th centuries in the Barbary Coast area of North Africa.
Slavery still shackles Mauritania, 31 years after its abolitionMark, Monica
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2012
The Guardian
Rigid caste system and ruling elite have enabled a centuries-old practice to continue into the 21st century.
ThrallSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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hrall was the term for a slave or unfree servant in Scandinavian culture during the Viking Age. Thralls were the lowest in the social order and usually provided unskilled labour during the Viking era...
An Unfinished Revolution - Book ReviewAgainst The Current vol. 159
Morrison, Derrick
Article
2012
Against The Current
Review of An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln, by Robin Blackburn.
U.S. ElitesThe Original Gangsters
Alexandrov, Nick
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2016
Counter Punch
Donald Trump is at home in the underworld. Tom Robbins writes that the de facto GOP nominee "has encountered a steady stream of mob-tainted offers that he apparently couldn't refuse" in his decades in...
The War of Northern AggressionOakes, James
Article
2012
Jacobin Magazine
A leading Civil War historian challenges the new orthodoxy about how slavery ended in America.
WAZ-IFJ Prize for Courage in Journalism Goes to a Team of Hungarian AuthorsSources News Release
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2010
International Federation of Journalists
The WAZ Media Group and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) will present the team of Hungarian authors József Gelei (50) and László Murányi (54) the "WAZ-IFJ Prize for Courage in Journal...
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Capitalism and SlaveryWilliams, Eric
Book
1944
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy in...
The City in HistoryIts Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Mumford, Lewis
Book
1961
Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
The History of DemocracyA Marxist Interpretation
Roper, Brian S.
Book
2013
Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately fro...
I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad Smardz Frost, Karolyn
Book
2007
The archaeological discovery in Toronto of the remains of a house belonging to former slaves, Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, key figures in the Underground Railroad.
Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970Stone, I.F.
Book
1972
An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
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