" The president himself declared: "We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.
If the man of the house was rich, a host of slaves or servants did the work.
Those joining the walk include people whose ancestors were slaves or employed slaves.
Relations between Seoul and Tokyo have frequently been troubled by issues from their shared history - including Japan's use of military sex slaves or "comfort women" during World War II, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul.
They must be either the slaves of addiction or the dupes of the tobacco industry's propaganda.
In times of scarcity, tribesmen would regularly invade the territory of their neighbors in the hope of carrying off camels, cattle, or slaves, taking great care to avoid killing anybody, since this could lead to a vendetta.
It occurs because doctors are not mere slaves to FDA regulation or drug company marketing.
Even as their armies bent under fierce Union attack, they refused to lend their slaves to build defenses or toil behind the lines.
There are a lot of unknowns concerning Michelle Obama's ancestry -- how many generations of slaves there were, or what route they took to this hemisphere.
Some reports find the government complicit in the slave trade of black Christians, who are purchased and forced to work as servants, laborers or sex slaves.
Were slaves people at all or just property?
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Fortunately today, innovators do not get burned at the stake, exiled to islands or made into slaves.
In the year 3000, mankind will be a depleted species scavenging among the mountains, eating live rats, or toiling as slaves under the evil Psychlos.
And while most every ship had a doctor, he wasn't there to heal the sick 30% or more of the slaves died en route.
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They did not believe that poor men, or any women, let alone slaves, should have the vote.
Slowly, the slaves, with their belongings wrapped in bundles or carried in old carpetbags, walked up to the main house and distributed themselves out front under the cypresses.
Often slaves were freed upon the death of the master or mistress, whose will might include legacies of money to enable the manumitted slave to wed and earn a living.
Some members of the African-American community have called on lawmakers to give cash payments or other financial benefits to descendants of slaves as compensation for the suffering caused by slavery.
It is worth noting that studies indicate that illiterate and poor Cambodian women are more susceptible to engaging in prostitution for their survival or to being violently trafficked as sex slaves.
The slaves are now often males forced to work in construction or agriculture, sometimes with the connivance of local police.
"A lot of them were used more as sex slaves and therefore the combatants are considering them as their possession or their wife, " Amnesty researcher Veronique Albert told the BBC.
All males need to prove, and reprove yourselves as obedient slaves first before being permitted to have citizenship, permitted to vote, or have a job.
The Brotherhood, which is nowadays open to all without distinction of sex or origin, was founded in the sixteenth century by African slaves and people of mixed origin.
Armed groups have profited from mining these metals, holding some workers at gunpoint and forcing them to work for little or no pay, according to the group Free the Slaves.
It is a grim story - many hundreds of girls- some as young as 11 - gang-raped and left for dead, or dragged off into the jungles to be used as sex slaves.
Through the stories of two slaves, Ms Rothschild focuses in very close especially through Bell or Belinda who lived in John's family, travelled from Bengal to London and Scotland, and while the Johnstones were away had a baby alone in her mistress's bedroom.
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Girls were bought as slaves (often having been sold by their parents at a good price) or were received as gifts from nobles and potentates.
Across the Champ de Mars from the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince is -or was - a tall statue to the maroons, the runaway slaves who are the symbol of Haiti's fight for independence at the end of the 18th century.
When not prescribing purges and pills to his sickly employer and his friends, Sloane crisscrossed the island on horseback or on foot, collecting plant and shrub specimens, guided by slaves from the sugar plantations with knowledge of local medically useful seeds and grasses.
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