They called their victims inferior, haunting echoes of the slave trade that thrived here for centuries.
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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Is this one of those rare slave plantations that primarily trades in polished silverware and gossip?
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.
After the slave drowned, Porter boiled and stripped the body to make an anatomy display.
At 27, he went to Africa and saw the damage caused by the slave trade.
Provided, of course, you were a freeborn Greek man not a woman, a foreigner or a slave.
Okay, now imagine it with a Sith Warrior of either gender, but with a male slave.
But unlike in wartime, when slave labour was rife, now they keep what they find.
The situation deteriorates each day, but Argentina is not yet slave to gravity alone.
Chinese workers no longer want to slave away for hours making Nike and Mattel products.
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.
"It wasn't slave labor because I knew what I was getting into, " he said.
Is there a risk that this ransom aggravates the problem by rewarding the slave owners?
Many U.S. institutions were deliberately designed to tolerate the coexistence of free states and slave-owning states.
"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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The teacher then used the students' questions, including the slave-related ones, as homework for the class.
The master who raped Moulkheir to produce the child wanted to punish his slave.
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.
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