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Slave labor in Brazil is not to be confused with slave labor of old.
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Illegal charcoal camps were found to sometimes result in slave labor and the destruction of rainforest on protected indigenous lands.
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It explains that the Americas were not the only world market for slave labor in the 15th and 16th centuries.
WSJ: Human Transactions | Spirits of the Passage | Frazier History Museum | By Mark Yost
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Additionally, the growing and harvesting of sugarcane, historically done with slave labor, is considered one of the most problematic commodities in the world.
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The Labor Ministry is known to slap companies for slave labor conditions whenever a company or its outsourcing partner does not provide adequate equipment for its staffers.
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But these letters, she says, are more than a family's chronicle of survival: They document a vast network of Nazi slave labor camps, about which very little has been written even today.
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Most of those eventual transitions were fueled by the abundance of cheap energy, either in the form of abundant natural resources, slave labor, or the advent of fossil fuel beginning with coal in the British Empire after 1850.
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Spanish high-street retailer Zara has been accused of allegedly accepting slave-labor working conditions supplanted by more than 30 of its outsourced plants running in Brazil.
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And while there was a strong abolitionist movement in England, it was the Industrial Revolution, and its mechanization that did away with the need for vast amounts of cheap labor in the colonies, that eventually turned England against the slave trade.
WSJ: Human Transactions | Spirits of the Passage | Frazier History Museum | By Mark Yost