The act banning the slave trade was passed two hundred years ago this month.
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
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Individuals must learn to master their finances before they become a slave to debt.
He delves into the presumed work life of early man, into slave society and medieval guilds.
At 27, he went to Africa and saw the damage caused by the slave trade.
Okay, now imagine it with a Sith Warrior of either gender, but with a male slave.
The situation deteriorates each day, but Argentina is not yet slave to gravity alone.
Sierra Leone has a special significance in the history of the transatlantic slave trade.
The power of the slave interests was as much political as it was economic.
Helpless in the grip of their own self-delusion, the slave owners undermined their own cause.
But the grip of slavery on the slave holders went beyond economic and political power.
Prof Hall said it was "very striking" how many slave owners there were in Scotland.
Is there a risk that this ransom aggravates the problem by rewarding the slave owners?
"Hal" Rand, as he was known to most, was a white farmer and slave owner.
My cartmate and I bonded, but really, she was a slave to her smartphone.
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Britain outlawed slave trading in 1807, and ownership of slaves was banned in 1833.
Henri Christophe was one of the most prominent figures of the Haitian slave revolution of 1791-1804.
Slave owners were often illiterate and so, unlike in America, did not keep diaries.
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He says Kashkari worked like a slave, often even on projects he wasn't directly overseeing.
In 1807 Britain banned the slave trade, and began using its navy to stop it.
Our image of the slave is we see adults with chains on the necks.
There's the challenge of finding records for slave ancestors who were bought and sold like livestock.
There's a re-creation of a slave ship's hold, complete with a display of shackles.
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Haiti began its existence as a brutal French slave colony divided into sugar and coffee plantations.
The Slave Trade: the Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870, by Hugh Thomas.
Slave labor in Brazil is not to be confused with slave labor of old.
For most Europeans the existence of the slave trade, and slavery itself, was barely known.
Cape Coast Castle was the grandest of the slave emporiums, at the centre of the trade.
Similarly, the Janissaries, the elite slave troops of the Ottoman emperors, were not allowed to marry.
It was the site of the first slave ships to land in the New World.
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