It has seen neighbors and states wage horrific battles over enslavement and mercantile disputes.

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Not every attempt to recreate the human anatomy in synthetic form is destined to lead to our enslavement, however.

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It sets in motion a story of enslavement and exodus that would come to inspire leaders like Martin Luther King as they sought freedom.

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Triveni Acharya of Maharastra state in India and Lydia Cacho Ribeiro of Cancun, Mexico were cited for efforts to combat sex-enslavement and trafficking, especially of children.

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Kony is the psychopathic cultist whose so-called "Lord's Resistance Army" (LRA) is best known for its terrifying mahem, kidnappings, enslavement and military and sexual exploitation of children.

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Yet this seriously crazed comedy is also a crazily serious disquisition on enslavement, and how it has been portrayed over the years and decades by slaves to Hollywood.

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But when he looked at Poland some years after its freedom was won, he wondered if many of his kinsman had not chosen a kind of existential enslavement to Western materialism.

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Sadly, nations generally discover the truth of Albert Einstein's dictum that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe not through the happy accumulation of wealth but through the agonizing enslavement of debt.

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According to his autobiographical letter Confessio, thought to have been written around 450 AD and first published in the early 9th Century (the Book of Amagh, containing the earliest copy believed to exist, is in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin), an angel appeared in a dream urging him to flee from his enslavement.

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