Ordinary people and slaves took up weapons and assaulted the royal court.
This capital city is located at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile Rivers - rivers that have carried sultans and pharaohs, treasure seekers and explorers, soldiers and slaves from the beginning of time.
The taste for ivory and other exotic goods has lured traders, travellers and explorers along this corridor since the 18th Century, when caravans carried cloth and beads, copper and spices, ivory and slaves across the same plains and hills now visited by tourists.
To the end, they refused to give guns to their slaves and press them into combat, even after Lincoln armed the freed slaves and other blacks and formed them into effective regiments.
We memorialize our first patriots -- blacksmiths and farmers, slaves and freedmen -- who never knew the independence they won with their lives.
Balloons can work but are time-consuming, and they are slaves to wind and pesky guide wires.
The family trees of many native southerners black and white include slaves and soldiers, not just from the Civil War, but from the revolution against Britain in the 18th century.
Mr. MOSLEY: And he has to learn to love himself, and, in learning to love himself, he has to learn to love his fellow slaves for what they are and what they've experienced, and he has to learn to understand his own experience, in relation to those slaves, and in relation to white America at that time also.
This settlement for destitute Africans from England and former slaves from the Americas had become the main base in west Africa for enforcing the British act that abolished the slave trade.
The deal takes the two hunters to a notorious plantation called Candyland, and takes the story into a wickedly astute parody of antebellum drama, with all of its lace and grace and happy slaves.
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That is why the flashbacks work so efficiently: they enable Durkin to prove that what a cult requires, apart from a master and his slaves, is time the chance, granted usually to totalitarian states, for a private crime to become a way of life.
But his rebels now terrorise large swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and the CAR and he is wanted by the International Criminal Court for rape, mutilation and murder of civilians, as well as forcibly recruiting children to serve as soldiers and sex slaves.
But Britain had coal, which replaced firewood as a fuel, and colonies with slaves providing plenty of farmland and cheap labour.
The victors write the history books, so the North wrote the history on slavery and very conveniently painted it solely as a Southern sin, whereas in fact the Northern colonies and states owned slaves for over 200 years and were the main slave traders.
First, he establishes that the Taino are gone and almost non consequential, then you have the slaves and mestizos that feel that they have no choice.
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DC, and all the colonies, client states, satrapies, sepoys, slaves and helots must understand that.
Yet on the road he dines with his slaves, and at home, his fields are mostly empty and he only seems to have slaves in his house.
For centuries, the rival tribe would steal cattle and take Chagga women and children as slaves, a practice that reached its height in the 19th Century and continued until the mid-20th Century.
Liverpool played an important role in the growth of the British Empire and became the major port for the mass movement of people, e.g. slaves and emigrants from northern Europe to America.
First China because the Chinese didn't want us on their land how they took away our written language, and how they tried to turn us into slaves, and so we spoke our fears to our ancestors and made our way to Laos.
And since that time, slaves have married, Cherokees and their children and grandchildren and so on, were considered as Cherokees.
Last year, SOS opened a school for escaped slaves and their children in Nouakchott.
In return, the owners provided the bare basics of life to their slaves and employees.
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It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.
Mr Chernow examines with an understanding but unblinking eye Washington's confused attitude to slaves and slavery.
It offers freedom to Babylon's slaves and their right to worship their own gods.
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Britain outlawed slave trading in 1807, and ownership of slaves was banned in 1833.
However, the Spanish were still trading with slavers like the Dutch, French and Portuguese for slaves.
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Into the fray comes Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), who sets about freeing the slaves and giving them paid employment.
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