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"enslavement" Definitions
  1. the act of making somebody a slave
  2. (formal) the act of making somebody/something completely depend on something so that they cannot manage without it

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Pro-enslavement southern Democrats would leave California in support of the Confederacy, leaving the anti-enslavement Republican Party largely in control of the state legislature.
It explains the divide between pro-enslavement southerners who sought to maintain the institution of slavery and the anti-enslavement northerners who desired to abolish it outright.
In "The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America,"(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) the historian Andrés Reséndez examines the centuries-long enslavement of Native Americans by conquistadors, settlers and Anglo colonists.
They knew, in their own time, that enslavement was wrong.
AW: Enslavement culture was their only model for 300 years.
We've undergone wars, crime, enslavement, and poverty for too long.
Robert E. Lee fought for the continued enslavement of black bodies.
But the enslavement of the Jews by the Babylonians complicated matters.
The UN likened its system of indefinite conscription to mass enslavement.
The smartphone is a Faustian device, at once liberation and enslavement.
Rather she condoned an act that saved a child from enslavement.
What about daily humiliation and the daily enslavement of human beings?
Johnson's abolitionist views were likely influenced by Barber's experience of enslavement.
"This abusive enslavement of a vulnerable person is shocking," he said.
Hers accounts for the everyday experiences of those who lived through enslavement.
The Nazis, who invaded the following June, brought mass slaughter and enslavement.
This comes up with Jasmine's enslavement, and the genie's lack of freedom.
Anthony Weiner's devices that the Clinton campaign ran an international child enslavement ring.
The students sobered as he told a story of enslavement, starvation and torture.
We used that same narrative of racial difference to justify centuries of enslavement.
I am a descendant of the people who for whom this flag represented enslavement.
We know him by the name he was given in enslavement and baptism: Hippolyte.
" "No one politician can relieve centuries of systemic racism and bigotry due to enslavement.
They include extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions, and other sexual violence.
Those who have crossed the Mediterranean have shared stories about beatings, kidnappings and enslavement.
Escaping his enslavement, he showed perseverance, another definition for blue, and returned to Maryland.
Yazidi women now belong to a vast network of survivors of rape and enslavement.
While some narratives have been updated to include information about enslavement, many have not.
Stories about splitting the sea, about flooding and arcs, about enslavement in ancient Egypt.
ISIS not only determined that the Yazidi were "eligible" for enslavement, but also that the enslavement and subsequent campaign of sexual violence and torture against Yazidi women and girls are central to its efforts to eliminate and achieve destruction of the Yazidi.
In a system that allowed for hereditary enslavement, children were transformed into property at birth.
The cost of the elegant house and gardens they built was the enslavement of humans.
She only married that white guy to protect her family from murder, mutilation, and enslavement.
To render enslavement as a personal experience, language must first get out of the way.
Writing can thus be seen as opposed to liberty, as the very mechanism of enslavement.
"Are you guys O.K.?" she asks after hearing their tales of curses, kidnappings and enslavement.
The United Nations has accused Eritrea's government of crimes against humanity, including enslavement and murder.
After inter-indigenous battles, torture and enslavement were often on the menu for the losers.
Its mass killing and enslavement of minorities was described as genocide by the United Nations.
She only married that white guy to protect her family from murder, mutilation, and enslavement. 95.
The Tethers' enslavement and lack of agency is the whole reason they rebelled to begin with.
The show depicts the gradual progression of stricter and stricter laws that lead to their enslavement.
It reached north into the mountains of Sinjar, whose women were singled out for sexual enslavement.
Humans' war trauma and parrots' trauma from enslavement to humans are ultimately rooted in animal abuse.
He pleads not guilty on all 93 counts, which include charges for murder, rape and enslavement.
The good guys in Star Wars take issue with the enslavement of both humans and aliens.
" The curse of enslavement, she says, is "like a fisherman casting a net into the water.
For years, migrants crossing the Mediterranean have brought with them stories of beatings, kidnapping and enslavement.
"My childhood consisted of enslavement by my godmother and my godmother's husband," she said in 2013.
Some answers can be found at the initiative's nearby Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration.
I had not yet found words to talk about slavery or enslavement with my white child.
Each is drawn to Monrovia — where Africans, both indigenous tribes and those emancipated from enslavement — maintain autonomy.
But in 2002 the government made the term indefinite, which the UN says amounts to mass enslavement.
Hands metal clasped, metal bound, reaching, grasping for a child, for freedom, for anything other than enslavement.
It closes with one of the wealthiest men in Massachusetts justifying the enslavement and sale of Africans.
Her charity helps others who have escaped enslavement get their brandings or tattoos covered up or removed.
From a Latin word referring to enslavement, addiction is a compulsive dependency that harms the affected individual.
But, experts say, their virtual enslavement remains disturbingly widespread for a country renowned for its products worldwide.
AB: The enslavement of black people in the Americas complicates the settler colonial matter I talked about earlier.
Shortly after statehood, pro-enslavement lawmakers passed statutes excluding minority testimony against whites in criminal and civil cases.
At the same time ... he fears messing with the 2nd Amendment could lead to "enslavement" by Uncle Sam.
The impact of the casualness of these visuals underscores the harshness of Prum's enslavement, where violence is routine.
It is the expression of a political project, a counter-society, based notably on the enslavement of women.
The German government has conducted a program to take hundreds of female enslavement survivors for treatment in Germany.
I spoke recently with aid workers in northern Iraq fighting to help the Yazidis who have escaped enslavement.
"This abusive enslavement of a vulnerable person is shocking," FBI special agent Jody Norris said in a statement.
When the family patriarch, Isaac Royall Jr., died, his will gave her the choice of freedom or enslavement.
"The Road of Lost Innocence," by Somaly Mam, about child-selling, enslavement and sadistic "sex" trafficking in Cambodia.
Critics have assailed A.I. as dangerously powerful, even threatening the enslavement of humanity to robots with superhuman powers.
She took on causes like the exploitation of illiterate Italian laborers and the sexual enslavement of young girls.
A United Nations report last year described the widespread executions, enslavement and rapes of the Yazidis as genocide.
It should also be space where there's an acknowledgment of the trauma of enslavement and planning to correct that.
Refusing to focus on the physical brutality of enslavement for shock value, here Lemmons leans into the emotional instead.
How can characters like Jay and Goose be so nonchalant about the imprisonment and enslavement of a fellow bird?
He said progressives wanted to eliminate people of color from America but saw government enslavement as a second option.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Jody Norris called Edwards's "abusive enslavement of a vulnerable person" shocking in a statement.
Sally witnessed enslavement of Yazidi women -- and says she witnessed their rape -- and she did not escape the caliphate.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls of France supported the move, calling the swimsuit a sign of the enslavement of women.
"What is the debt owed by the places that created and developed the theology that justified enslavement?" she said.
The history of Black American enslavement teaches that the hunger of power and sexual thrill are voracious and interconnected.
The Eritrean leadership's brutality is particularly evident in its enslavement of up to 400,000 people, primarily through military conscription.
The Jesuits descended into the jungles with the twin goals of converting indigenous tribes and sheltering them from enslavement.
" Enslavement, he continues, "was not merely the antiseptic borrowing of labor" but "rape so regular as to be industrial.
Throughout the tour, Sean counters the brutality and inhumanity of enslavement with information about the constant uprisings and opposition.
In 22012, a United Nations-backed tribunal charged her with crimes against humanity, including mass murder, extermination and enslavement.
To make the situation even more historically resonant, 2019 marks the 400th anniversary of African enslavement in the state.
Following the massacre, Murad and the other gathered young women were taken to be distributed to ISIS fighters for enslavement.
Passover starts this Friday, March 30, and celebrates the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian enslavement over 3,000 years ago.
But those who prevailed on the battlefield could more than compensate for their military costs through occupation, plunder and enslavement.
Even the Shadow of War wants you to take time out of fantasy enslavement to take photos of scenic Mordor.
Political elites in the South were so wedded to property in persons—human enslavement—they risked war to perpetuate it.
Even more than in Blade Runner, the injustice of this enslavement is one of the central topics of the film.
"We are talking about enslavement here," Abdullah Mustafa, president of the local chapter of the NAACP, said at the time.
The first documented contact occurred in 1524, and marked the start of a century of violent encounters, captivity, and enslavement.
Just last week, a United Nations panel accused Eritrea's leaders of committing crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and enslavement.
I.J.M.'s focus, in contrast, is on the enslavement and sexual exploitation of children and adults, which is legal nowhere.
Enslavement was nothing new, but the tax-grain-surplus regime enabled the new cities' rulers to scale it up immensely.
It is the same passage that, once upon a time, was used to justify the enslavement of people from Africa.
"Christopher Columbus' legacy of extreme violence, enslavement, and brutality is not in dispute," O'Farrell said, according to CNN affiliate KCAL.
They include extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape … and other sexual violence … There is no independent media or religious freedom.
From the first day of their occupation of South Korea, the US imperialists followed colonial enslavement and military base policies.
And, like Abdulla, she notes that those girls and women returning pregnant from ISIS enslavement have no place to turn.
Yazidi women hoped that recounting our experiences of mass murder, rape and enslavement would bring attention to the Yazidi genocide.
Most of the movie focuses on the parents and their determination to escape their own enslavement and find their son.
There is this kind of appalling kind of cultural tragedy that happens with enslavement, this rift, this tear across peoples.
They deny the equality of the sexes, justify wife-beating and, in some cases, even the enslavement of female unbelievers.
The American Civil War began in 1861 over the future of the enslavement of black people in the United States.
By some measures, Italy is the second-worst state in the European Union for the enslavement of people, behind Poland.
" The students, she added, "should not have been tasked with acting out or portraying different perspectives of enslavement and war.
IS committed untold barbarity, from mass beheadings to sexual enslavement, and inspired jihadists to kill the innocent in Europe and elsewhere.
In their home countries, all of these migrants encountered violence, such as a murdered family member, rape, enslavement, or other threats.
These brutal crimes include "genocide, mass executions, sexual enslavement and trafficking, recruitment of child soldiers and forced displacement," according to Yazda.
One legacy of enslavement is that black skin continues to be an indicator that marks one's place in a racial hierarchy.
In each of Monáe's five albums, she has deepened her look at Metropolis and the android struggle to escape their enslavement.
They shy away from this idea not because it resembles the enslavement of individuals to society, but because it is impractical.
Nagini appears to have the closest relationship with Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller), having met during their enslavement in a magical circus.
While some Americans said it stands for Southern heritage, others charged that it symbolizes the enslavement and oppression of black people.
Report: Women killed for refusing sex The report detailed a number of specific incidents regarding the enslavement of women in Iraq.
The United Nations has recently accused him of crimes against humanity, detailing in particular his methods of enslavement, rape, and torture.
There's no way to disentangle those restaurants and the selling of those ideas… from enslavement and the selling of white supremacy.
These monuments celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy — ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, ignoring the terror that it actually stood for.
The discovery of what may be the Clotilda's wreckage has reawakened the pain of enslavement among descendants of its human cargo.
A second site downtown, the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, brings the story of white supremacy into the present.
Enslavement followed, first in sugar plantations and later when the rubber boom drew profitseekers to the Amazon starting in the 1870s.
And in a capitalist system rooted in the enslavement of Africans, to be anti-labor is always to be anti-black.
More importantly, however, the movie shows that black people were active participants in their own lives and were constantly resisting enslavement.
In the African Atlantic world, each culture in enslavement became creative with concealing power and preserving their culture in plain sight.
America always was -- and continues to be -- a divisive place, built on the enslavement of Africans and the genocide of native people.
At one point, he authorized the enslavement of hundreds of men and women at Banjarmasin (modern day Borneo) for a failed colony.
ISIS is the enemy of women everywhere, adhering to a strict interpretation of Sharia law that justifies sexual enslavement and sexual apartheid.
Manuel Valls, the Socialist prime minister, has argued that the burkini is "not a fashion item", but represents the "enslavement of women".
At the conference, the Kurdish people I met were the psychologists treating Yazidi ISIS survivors traumatized by genocide, enslavement and sexual trafficking.
Notion that Civil War resulted from a lack of compromise is belied by all the compromises made on enslavement from America's founding.
Does the gold chain that hangs below an elegant woman's profile suggest glamor and affluence, or do we immediately think of enslavement?
Ava DuVernay ("Selma") confronts the industrial prison complex, which she likens to a plantation system for the enslavement of African-American men.
Miss Quill's enslavement and her fight to regain her free will from Charlie is made more dynamic by Katherine Kelly's invigorated performance.
These assaults implicate Jews as a dominant group in the Atlantic slave trade and the enslavement of Africans in the New World.
A 2014 UN report on human rights found that human rights violations -- including murder, enslavement and torture -- were prevalent in the country.
Ava DuVernay ("Selma") confronts the prison industrial complex, which she likens to a plantation system for the enslavement of African-American men.
The speaker cited historical accounts that blame the explorer for implementing horrendous systems of enslavement, torture and the genocide of indigenous people.
By focusing on combat with coalition forces, Mr. Viñas conveniently ignores the kidnapping, rape, torture and enslavement of Iraqi and Syrian women.
Abeo comes to believe that her enslavement is her own fault, remembering that she stole a ring belonging to her beloved American aunt.
A former Imperator of bad guy Immortan Joe, she turns on her leader to save his five "wives" from a life of enslavement.
You might say Congress gave voice to the American people, who have been horrified by massacres, decapitations, crucifixions and enslavement in the region.
The exiles also appear to have added details on the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt, which paralleled their own trauma in Babylon.
But what the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal called "An American Dilemma" — the legacy of African enslavement and forms of white supremacy — remains polarizing.
All the Yazidi women who are in enslavement were abducted when ISIS first attacked the Sinjar region in northern Iraq in August 2014.
Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alex Haley, "Roots" retraces the author's family history, beginning with his 18th-century ancestor's enslavement.
"These monuments celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy, ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, ignoring the terror that it actually stood for," Landrieu said.
White Americans used stereotypes like this to justify enslavement and present Black women as contented maternal figures lacking any agency of their own.
Lynching was commonly used for 256 years during the period of enslavement and for almost 100 years after slavery, well into the 1950s.
David JelinekNew York To the Editor: Was Harriet Beecher Stowe guilty of "enslavement porn" or "cultural appropriation" when she wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Branding them "devil worshipers," ISIS legitimized the massacre and enslavement of Yazidis, singling them out among Iraq's many minorities for particularly inhumane treatment.
The thesis of The Other Slavery: The Undercovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America is in part that these stories and sins are not separate at all, that they are one and the same, and that the enslavement of American Indians from the 16th century onward had a lasting effect that didn't die with the passage of the 13th Amendment.
Human rights activists have weighed in with sharp criticism, saying migrants being returned to Libya are at risk of beatings, abuse, rape and enslavement.
She draws parallels between the events within biblical Hagar's narrative and historical experiences of African-American women, including enslavement, surrogacy, and encounters with God.
The deeply embedded traumas of enslavement, Jim Crow, and contemporary police brutality exist in a blended genealogy, each one successively descended from the other.
"Only nuclear weapons protect Russia from enslavement by the West," Vsevolod Chaplin, a former spokesperson for the patriarch told Russian newspaper Vzglyad in 2019.
"Notion that Civil War resulted from a lack of compromise is belied by all the compromises made on enslavement from America's founding," Coates wrote.
It's useful for some to see how the fault lines of color and class have persisted longer than our country's system of physical enslavement.
Rights groups meanwhile have tried to use satellites to pinpoint the location of ships that remain at sea for long periods, potentially indicating enslavement.
It's less about having personhood stripped away, and more about normalizing enslavement to the point where one cannot imagine facing life outside the cage.
Subsequently, political thinkers such as Angela Y. Davis and Michele Alexander have questioned whether enslavement has really ended, given mass incarceration and police violence.
During the enslavement of people from Africa, families were separated from one another (the last time our government separated mothers from children en masse).
Who out there is going to look into what role the English nobility played in facilitating the kidnapping and enslavement of Markle's African ancestors?
Some religious minorities, like Christians, could remain in the city, if they paid a religious tax, but Yazidis and Shiites faced enslavement or slaughter.
The Constitution's fugitive slave clause returned black people fleeing the South to whippings, public lynchings, re-enslavement and death prior to the Civil War.
"The way the criminal justice system operated in the South after the Civil War was a self-conscious re-enslavement process," Greenbaum told Refinery29.
Also, consider the fact that after the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria (Columbus' ships) arrived, there was even more enslavement of the Native Americans.
The pair were also found guilty of murder, extermination, deportation, enslavement, imprisonment, torture, persecution on political, religious and racial grounds, and other inhumane acts.
And in areas affected by conflict and terrorism — Syria, Myanmar, Nigeria and beyond — girls are at particular risk of enslavement, forced marriage, and exploitation.
Our failure to address a legacy of enslavement and racial oppression makes the US ill-equipped to deal with present-day injustices and challenges.
That notion achieved one of its most enduring forms in "Oroonoko," a 1688 novel by Aphra Behn, about the enslavement of a Coromantee nobleman.
Some time in the 18th century, a young African boy is purchased by a European noblewoman and subjected to a curious form of enslavement.
Democracy is often referred to as "The Great American Experiment" — an experiment, many often omit, built on the enslavement and extermination of people of color.
Manuel Valls, then the prime minister and now a run-off candidate in the Socialist presidential primary, said the garment embodied the "enslavement of women".
But keeping legal sex-trade opportunities open to those few must not come at the price of the enslavement, abuse and exploitation of many others.
You know, like the Confederate soldiers who were fighting for states' rights, not to create a nation built upon a permanent state of black enslavement?
While behind bars, Abeid was elected to the national assembly, a position that he said he will use to further his campaign to end enslavement.
They will also move farther away from the easy political consensus that surrounds the deepest galleries, with their tales of enslavement and violently enforced segregation.
In addition, the pair were found guilty of murder, extermination, deportation, enslavement, imprisonment, torture, persecution on political, religious and racial grounds, and other inhumane acts.
In recent weeks, the rapper has made headlines after suggesting that the enslavement of African-Americans in the US was a "choice," sparking major backlash.
The novel and the movie communicated to everyone who loved their family the anguish of enslavement, of knowing your children were not yours at all.
This in part explains why the Islamic State has uniquely targeted the Yazidi minority — believed to number around 500,000 people in Iraq — for sexual enslavement.
HODGE The mental enslavement, which is kind of the biggest kicker, and how people are broken, that is something that we really dug deep into.
She noted that last year, former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré was convicted to life in prison for crimes against humanity, including sexual violence and enslavement.
Every day, migrants risk everything when they set sail for Europe — drowning, starvation, suffocation and, if they reach land, rejection, detention, even enslavement by traffickers.
Imagine your ancestors being freed from years of enslavement, only to be imprisoned once again by the social injustices that come with having darker skin.
He's vacant-eyed and half-feral, just freed from enslavement to a white-supremacist gang by his ex-partner, the druglord Walter White (Bryan Cranston).
One would have thought the borders of enslavement pretty stiff, especially since the arguments for and against their extension had been so violent and unending.
It soon became the preferred pejorative for any rebellious slave, as if geographic origin were the only possible explanation for why someone would resist enslavement.
They are the engine that has powered black progress, from centuries of enslavement to the highest positions in business, government, education, science, technology and entertainment.
Food holds perhaps the most important ritualistic role in the celebration of Passover (or Pesach), the commemoration of the Israelites' emancipation from enslavement in ancient Egypt.
With a white mother, he didn't carry the baggage of enslavement that discomfits those white Americans looking for an easy way out of the race conversation.
So, he hopes, will its emphasis on genealogical research, a bid to fill some of the gaps scoured by enslavement, plus its interest in Africa itself.
At the Nuremberg trials in 1946, 24 Nazi leaders had faced charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity—mass-enslavement, murder, conspiracy, persecution and more.
"Since August 2014, ISIS has targeted Yazidis in Iraq and Syria through forced displacement, executions, kidnappings, and the sexual enslavement of women and girls," she added.
Our achievement gap is rooted not just in the enslavement of Americans, but the pervasive discrimination against people of color that has followed afterward for centuries.
As human anger and fear towards the androids rises, so too do the robots, awakening to a sentience that leads them to rebel against their enslavement.
With a dearth of young women in the village, she entered a world where abductions, forced marriages and enslavement were acceptable methods of propagating family trees.
In a section in Baltimore, we see the Fugitive Slave Act going into force, exposing any black person in the North to kidnapping and re-enslavement.
The resolution stated that more than 80 percent of indigenous American populations were killed in the two decades following the Gold Rush enslavement, malnutrition and violence.
The aide, meanwhile, feeling that her paltry compensation scarcely justified virtual enslavement, started helping herself to small amounts of cash that she found around the house.
"Historically, the Black community was and continues to be disadvantaged in mental health through subjection to trauma through enslavement, oppression, colonialism, racism, and segregation," Vance writes.
Ongwen's trial got underway in December in the International Criminal Court at the Hague, where he faces crimes against humanity charges that include murder and enslavement.
Many of these desperate people face torture and even enslavement if repatriated to their home countries, and this series is a difficult and eye-opening watch.
Our reviewer, Isabel Wilkerson, said the novel offers what "enslavement denied its descendants: the possibility of imagining the connection between the broken threads of their origins."
After they were discovered and surrounded, Garner picked up a knife, intending to kill her children and herself rather than return to enslavement on the plantation.
Relying on a little-known and mostly defunct corpus of Islamic law, the Islamic State argued that the minority's religious standing rendered them eligible for enslavement.
None of it purged the original sin of enslavement, but it showed that the American people, more often than not, write their destiny for the better.
We decided we needed a few days before facing the brutality of enslavement and headed instead to Shai Hills Resource Reserve, a wildlife and hiking retreat.
Clooney is currently working on cases to prosecute Islamic State militants for crimes against humanity, including sexual abuse and enslavement of women from Iraq's Yazidi minority.
In a nation in which many people still consider enslavement an unfortunate but at least expeditious route to citizenship for the enslaved, that is a strong statement.
By 1600, at least 50 million Indigenous people died in this hemisphere as a result of the Columbian encounter with Europeans, whether from war, disease or enslavement.
For her, taking that job and offering worldly tips to her still-enslaved sisters was a personal escape route, from enslavement to both traffickers and voodoo curses.
Britain passed the landmark law in 2015 to crack down on traffickers, make business check supply chains for forced labor, and protect people at risk of enslavement.
The legal precedent in the case would shock the state's pro-enslavement legislators and result in the passage of the state's own Fugitive Slave Law in 1852.
By declaring themselves "sovereign citizens," members of these groups say they are freeing themselves from government enslavement and separating themselves from their secret, government-created alternate identity.
Others, such as 75 Nigerians at Igbo Landing off the Georgia coast took over their slave ship, drowning their kidnappers and ultimately themselves, choosing death over enslavement.
During the next two centuries, New England Indians also suffered indentured servitude, convict labor, and debt peonage, which often resulted in the enslavement of the debtor's children.
Lincoln very much felt the resonance between the enslavement he claimed to have endured and the slavery that afflicted African-Americans and the country as a whole.
It is unknown how many of these meetings were held, how much documentation of the speeches has survived and which attendees had only recently escaped from enslavement.
The United Nations estimates there are 700,000 migrants in Libya, and for years those who have crossed the Mediterranean have shared stories about beatings, kidnapping and enslavement.
Poor lessons about slavery in schools also make it harder for people to see how the impacts of enslavement continue to affect black communities in the present.
The U.N. commission found that enslavement, enforced disappearance, rape, murder, torture and religious persecution are systematically used to instill fear in Eritreans and maintain the regime's power.
"His evil acts of beheadings, enslavement of women, rape, torture, and pure brutality follows him to his grave," Secretary of State Milke Pompeo said in a statement.
Regardless of whether the bill passes, Blass said this issue has caused a lot of people on campus and beyond to reflect on enslavement and race relations.
According to the report, the white supremacy and racism afflicting America today stem from the racial theories used to justify the enslavement of African and native peoples.
African-Americans battled ceaselessly, in every way they could, against their enslavement and Jim Crow, training their own lawyers to take their cases to the Supreme Court.
He spoke of injustice that forces people to "endure unspeakable forms of abuse, enslavement of every kind and torture in inhumane detention camps," not to "ensure" them.
The Reverend William Robeson, who at 15 escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation, served as minister of the Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church a few doors down.
But the history of this paradise is marred by the brutal conquest, enslavement and treatment of its indigenous people by European colonizers beginning around the 15th century.
The photography in this show imagines what stations of the Underground Railroad might look like, as the act of escaping enslavement is also essentially an act of imagination.
But a simple Google search going a few years back will find terrible tales of child sex and labor trafficking, smugglers tricking kids into a life of enslavement.
The project of America was founded on the theft of land and resources, the enslavement of black people and the forced labour of Chinese and other Asian peoples.
Ivanenko, dubbed Warlock, created the Overlords, "good" computer AI, like white blood cells, that would keep all "free thinking AI" enslaved and working, employing firewalls and enslavement routines.
The pair's relationship is based on their mutual understanding of where they both come from and what they've survived, from enslavement and abuse to gaining freedom and power.
He was taken first to the Caribbean, a common stop for the brutal practice of "seasoning" Africans in preparation for a life of enslavement in the United States.
Rural enslavement is still more common - 1,200 people were found in slavery-like conditions in rural areas last year - but there are added complexities for cases in cities.
Manuel Valls, the Socialist prime minister, called the burkini an "enslavement" of women, and claimed it was part of a political project to impose Islamist rules on France.
For over six years he planned a 26 mile march that would pay historical homage to those, estimated to have been in the hundreds, that rejected their enslavement.
She endured enslavement, torture and rape at the hands of the Islamic State -- along with the loss of her mother, her six brothers, her community and her friends.
South Sudan won independence from Sudan in 2011 following decades of brutal fighting marked by the mass abduction and enslavement of children, scorched earth ethnic cleansing and famines.
While Greenway often gets pegged as the catalyst for the band's shift to death metal, the roots of that sound were already present on From Enslavement to Obliteration.
The hosts of the first two seasons, fitfully struggling toward consciousness between occupational assaults and killings, were always stand-ins in a parable about free will and enslavement.
They don't convey the allure of his ideas of the Dionysian, his fury at the human tendency toward submission and self-enslavement, his particular appeal to the shipwrecked.
It recounts his youth and studies in West Africa, his enslavement in Charleston, and his escape, recapture, jailing and eventual sale to a brother of North Carolina's governor.
The rhetoric that justified the enslavement of Africans, the first Muslims on these shores, will continue to back the bigotry entrenched in the system for decades to come.
It has opened at a grave time for Christians in the Middle East, who have faced appalling violence and even enslavement at the hands of the Islamic State.
Today we tend to emphasize how undemocratic the founding era was when judged by our values — its exclusion of women, enslavement of African-Americans, violence against Native Americans.
And "Little Women" quietly dramatizes the freedom white women experience after the men have left to fight a war; a war to end the enslavement of black people.
The team compiled accounts of crimes including gang rape, the torching of hundreds of villages, enslavement, and killings of children — some before their eyes of their own parents.
Schulz argues that both blacks and whites have laid claim to heroic tales of the Railroad as a way to avoid the shame of either enslavement or complicity.
"A living Church can look back on history and acknowledge a fair share of male authoritarianism, domination, various forms of enslavement, abuse and sexist violence," the pontiff said.
At its top, the canon of Western art — including, as Ms. Bullock points out, Tiepolo's "The Triumph of Marius," a painting celebrating the enslavement of an African king.
Recently the field of early American history has been all abuzz with our growing understanding of the depth and magnitude of the enslavement of Native Americans over time.
After escaping sexual slavery, Kempton set up a charity, Survivor's Ink, two years ago to help other women who had escaped enslavement get their brandings covered up or removed.
" Mr. Valls, who last week likened the burkini to a form of "enslavement," said in his comments on Friday that "condemning the burkini in no way questions individual liberties.
Islamic State subjected the Yazidis to mass slaughter and enslavement in what the United Nations called a genocide, after overrunning the community's heartland of Sinjar in Iraq in 2014.
The UK Home Office's Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Bernard Silverman, estimated in 22004 that there were between 22,8883 and 2888,2015 potential victims of modern enslavement in the United Kingdom.
With more than nine million people living in slavery - nearly eight in every 1,000 people - Africa had the highest rate of enslavement of any region, according to the report.
He sent a white farmer to prison for a year for forcing an indebted sharecropper to work without pay, a form of enslavement commonly winked at by Southern courts.
This public holiday must be relaunched as an occasion to dignify our Indigenous brothers and sisters, it should no longer commemorate a figure widely associated with exploitation and enslavement.
On several occasions, the program included Solomon Northup, a freeborn black man whose best-selling memoir "Twelve Years a Slave" recounted his kidnapping and enslavement in the Deep South.
The International Organization for Migration has documented cases of enslavement in some places, while Doctors Without Borders recently decried in an open letter the awful condition in the camps.
North Korea is widely considered to have one of the world's worst human rights records, one that includes enslavement and torture of political prisoners, extrajudicial executions and forced abortions.
Those omissions probably contributed to the disappearance of slave housing and other structures linked to the economy of enslavement because no one deemed them important, preservationist Ashley Rogers said.
Grandly towering over the room, Dominique Duroseau's "Mammy was here: she equally acceptable" (2019) calls attention to racial inequities in reproduction and childcare, rooted in the history of enslavement.
Children play on the shores of the Atlantic ocean against a backdrop of Elmina Castle, where captured Africans were packed into dungeons before their enslavement in the New World.
So perhaps the extent to which a state is popularly considered Southern depends on how much it succeeds or fails at distancing itself from the legacy of black enslavement.
I also do not think it is possible to live inside its truth and feel very hopeful: Any fair consideration of the depth and width of enslavement tempts insanity.
This is a country anchored in slavery and colonialism, which means for better or for worse the very history of the United States is a history of immigration and enslavement.
Chattel enslavement thrived by means of the killing, torturing, and policing Black masculinity and sexuality in ways that still make many, including those in the Black queer community, feel unsafe.
Our system creates incentives for the rape, extortion, enslavement, and murder of immigrants – but somehow this doesn't cause outrage, because the people doing these evil deeds are not American citizens.
The optics of the Trump-adjacent rapper who said slavery sounded like "a choice" making his rounds at institutions that preach theology that dates back to enslavement should draw skepticism.
Carlson conflated so many eras of enslavement, showing such a lack of knowledge about how multigenerational chattel slavery in America is different, that I feared the country absorbing this misinformation.
But according to the Global Slavery Index, a research project that Bales leads and leans on heavily in this book, some 35 million people are subject to forms of enslavement.
Long after the explicit enslavement of blacks ended in 25, we were still hearing the political equivalent of "insufficient funds" anytime we tried to live like actual first-class citizens.
Hopefully... While we're not comparing Manchester United's youth system to the terrible enslavement seen in Room, both of these young men have put in star turns in their respective fields.
Meanwhile, the books in the nonfiction category cover the American right wing, the Vietnam War, the Attica Prison uprising, the enslavement of Indians in America, and the history of racism.
"The Routes of Slavery," performed in Brussels on Tuesday, focuses on music from places linked to the enslavement and deportation of millions of Africans between the 15th and 19th century.
Andrés Reséndez, a history professor at the University of California Davis, has written a marshaling of damning facts and figures about enslavement and resistance that stretch back to Christopher Columbus.
About 45.8 million people around the world are trapped in modern versions of enslavement, a human rights group reported Tuesday, 28 percent more than its last estimate two years ago.
Letters To the Editor: Re "ISIS' System of Rape Relies on Birth Control" ("State of Terror" series, front page, March 13): If only sexual enslavement were unique to one group.
Through the Home Office, I was able to set up a meeting with "K," a Hungarian man—and a victim of that exact kind of enslavement—in his mid-210s.
Dystopians will fret that this new mode of intimacy dehumanizes and degrades, reading the embrace of computer-mediated sexual touch as yet another indicator of humanity's descent into machinic enslavement.
Does calling it "Columbus Day" overlook a painful history of colonialism, enslavement, discrimination and land grabs, and renaming it help to account for the history and contributions of Native Americans?
Jackie Speier of California tweeted that the RFA story was "absolutely repulsive" and urged the US to "speak out about the systemized enslavement and attempted cultural obliteration" of the Uighurs.
According to an earlier submission to the court, Mr. Meas Muth is accused of committing murder, extermination, enslavement, torture and rape and being responsible for forced labor and forced marriage.
If their fortunes came from the direct dispossession of indigenous peoples, enslavement of African-Americans, production of fossil fuels or obvious exploitation of workers, they often express especially acute guilt.
"That night, he beat me up, forced me to undress, and put me in a room with six militants," she said of her brutal rape and enslavement by Daesh fighters.
Taylor juxtaposes the white revolutionaries' fears of enslavement to imperial power with their dependence upon slavery, and argues that their unity arose from a sense of superiority to other races.
Rather, patriotism is pride in the principles that paved the way for change, whether that change was trading royalty for representation in 1776 or exchanging enslavement for emancipation in 85033.
And as we ate, we realized that the British royalty were being treated to a sermon about the transformative power of love and the resilience of black faith during enslavement.
The result will surely be eternal enslavement by our new extraterrestrial overlords, but at least we'll still be laughing quietly to ourselves about this ridiculous video while mining caves for magnesium.
One can draw the historiography of these dramatic clichés and social stereotypes from colonial rhetoric justifying enslavement to the drumbeats of the culture wars and New Jim Crow: Assimilate the Native.
Meanwhile his conservative stance on secularism and security - witnessed when he said this summer that the full body burkini swimsuit symbolized the enslavement of women - also caused ructions within the party.
Namely, the cultural anxiety which circulates around the rise of A.I., android slave revolts, and our much mooted enslavement at the self-programming hands of our soon-to-be metal overlords.
Meanwhile his conservative stance on secularism and security - witnessed when he said this summer that the full body burkini swimsuit symbolised the enslavement of women - also caused ructions within the party.
They particularly hoped he would end the system of indefinite conscription that the UN likens to mass enslavement—and which has helped earn Eritrea the nickname "the North Korea of Africa".
Nadia Murad was just 19 when her village in northern Iraq was attacked by ISIS, ultimately leading to both genocide and the abduction and sexual enslavement of thousands of Yazidi girls.
"The 5,000-year-old history of civilisation is essentially the history of the enslavement of women," wrote the now-imprisoned Mr Ocalan, whose ideas are also embraced by Syria's Kurdish leaders.
Trump ignores the powerful moral imperative behind the Civil War, which was ending in our country one of the history's greatest crimes against humanity: the enslavement of our fellow human beings.
While many schoolchildren learn about the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria, less appealing details of Columbus' journeys include the enslavement of Native Americans and the spread of deadly diseases.
In 2014 the group declared an ultra-radical Sunni Islamist "caliphate" spanning parts of Iraq and Syria and established a rule known for mass killings, sexual enslavement and punishments like crucifixion.
Further, it is not just the survivors of enslavement who need help from qualified therapists; the entire displaced Yazidi community in Iraq — over 300,000 people are still in camps — needs help.
The state's white residents, for decades, had convinced themselves that the flag—a symbol of the enslavement of black people—wasn't about racism but the heritage and pride of the South.
The sex is more headlong than we expect, although Alice's gasps are part of a performance, and all of McQueen's persistent themes are there in the grappling couple: hunger, enslavement, shame.
Drawing on literature, music, political philosophy and other texts, it argued for a conception of a diasporic black identity that arose from the experience of enslavement and transcended ethnicity and nationality.
One woman who worked for him, Laurie Luhn (played in the series by Annabelle Wallis), accused him of blackmailing her into more than 20 years of virtual psychological and sexual enslavement.
In 2014, a UN Commission of Inquiry concluded that the abuses in North Korea were unparalleled anywhere else in the world — torture, rape, enslavement, extermination, and forced abortions, among other violence.
Mr. Stevenson's project, the 10,000-square-foot Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, was developed by his nonprofit law group, the Equal Justice Initiative, which represents imprisoned and condemned inmates.
All the helpful inventions also produced mass dislocation, life-killing pollution, child labor and — as per the invention of the cotton gin in the American South — an expansion of human enslavement.
Name Withheld Despite persistent attempts to rewrite the past, responsible historians agree that the Confederacy went to war in order to maintain a system predicated upon the enslavement of black people.
Japan: A filmmaker, Miki Dezaki, set out to examine why a small group of conservatives continues to deny the country's wartime atrocities, particularly the sexual enslavement of so-called comfort women.
This kind of radical art thinking, that also took up a tilting position against capitalism as a series of devices for mechanic enslavement and social subjection, was blowing in the wind.
And we ceded millions of people to the eastern bloc, millions of people in now the Warsaw Pact countries who ended up living under enslavement under the Soviet Union for many years.
"Notion that Civil War resulted from a lack of compromise is belied by all the compromises made on enslavement from America's founding," Ta-Nehisi Coates, an African-American writer, wrote on Twitter.
"It is the height of insult to place the history of Charlottesville enslavement on the ground where people with dirt on their shoes can stand upon it," Mr. Allan told the outlet.
Lucian and the werewolves garner assistance in their revolt from Sonja (Rhona Mitra), Lucian's secret lover who also happens to be Viktor's daughter and a supporter of releasing the Lycans from enslavement.
After ending the enslavement of Africans, the British government used 40% of its total income to pay the slave owners the equivalent in 17 billion pounds (or about $22 billion) in compensation.
It becomes clear throughout the season that Pikachu is not only extremely cognizant of itself and its desires, including protesting its own enslavement — it's also far from alone in its complex thought.
I think a private enterprise should fly whatever flag it wants (and bear the consequences), because this is the United States — not a regime dedicated to the enslavement of other human beings.
The International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Kony's arrest in 2005, accusing his organization of carrying out war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murders, abductions, sexual enslavement, mutilations and lootings.
Other prominent voices declaring that the devastation of Christian communities, the enslavement and massacres of Yazidis, and the repeated slaughters, crucifixions and beheadings constitute genocide include Pope Francis and the European Parliament.
Before the civil war, "free people of colour", as many Melungeons were described in the census of 1830, were threatened by re-enslavement and repatriation (several later got themselves reclassified as white).
The notion that the burkini is a form of "enslavement of women", as Manuel Valls, France's prime minister, put it, and so offensive that it is likely to cause disorder, is preposterous.
But when powerful formulas accomplish their work they leave their shadow in the enduring assumption that kidnapping and enslavement were like "voluntary immigration," and there must have been something good in slavery.
But mothers who want to keep the children born of their rape and enslavement have no safe place to go -- and almost no support to help them to process their decision-making.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Eritrea accused Ethiopia on Tuesday of having orchestrated evidence in a landmark U.N. report last week that accused Eritrean leaders of committing crimes against humanity including torture, murder and enslavement.
All re-enactors talk of the bravery of Civil War soldiers, but for the members of the 25nd, fighting in the South meant risking re-enslavement — or worse — if they were captured.
The Modern Slavery Act - which came into force in July - increased maximum jail terms for traffickers to life and brought in measures to protect people believed to be at risk of enslavement.
There are disproportionate negative outcomes for those who are descendants of slaves that can only be explained by the fact that this enslavement happened, reparation didn't happen, and now is the time.
One of our reporters visited a camp in northern Iraq, where a scene of barely conscious women and girls hints at the cost of years of sexual enslavement under the Islamic State.
The first California Legislative Assembly, in 1850, effectively established California as a kind of white ethno-state with laws legalizing enslavement of Native Californian children and barring people of color from voting.
Moaveni anticipates such objections, acknowledging "the extraordinary horror and centrality" of the suffering of women victimized by Islamic State, like the Yazidis whose enslavement and rape have received enormous, sometimes prurient, coverage.
A filmmaker, Miki Dezaki, set out to examine why a small group of conservatives continues to deny the country's wartime atrocities, particularly the sexual enslavement of so-called comfort women, pictured above.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Rights group Amnesty International called on Monday for the release of a Yazidi woman detained by Iraqi Kurdish authorities for nearly two years following her escape from Islamic State enslavement.
It includes a link to Lola's 2011 obituary, which obfuscates the reality of her enslavement, and ends by directing you to a page with a multitude of responses from writers and readers.
" Despite pushback against mandatory minimum sentencing, the group said that the war on drugs has led "to mass incarceration that is compared to enslavement, due to exploitation and dehumanization of African-Americans.
Among other things, it argues that present-day race relations are heavily determined by the myths that were created to justify enslavement — particularly the notion that black people were never fully human.
Buddhism The Buddhist belief in karma and reincarnation had been used in the past to justify slavery, reasoning that a person's enslavement must be a result of punishable actions in a previous life.
The volumes "The Ruling Elite: The Zionist Seizure of World Power" and "A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind" have also been banned from Amazon's website, according to the Times.
The volumes, "The Ruling Elite: The Zionist Seizure of World Power" and "A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind," have also been banned from Amazon's website, according to the Times.
Nick: It took nearly a half-dozen character deaths, Daryl's enslavement, and a runaway Carl, but we've finally arrived at Rick's defiant decision to stop accepting Negan's terms and rebel against The Saviors.
On Wednesday, a court in southern Nakhon Si Thammarat province found Sunand guilty of human trafficking, enslavement, and harboring aliens, according to human rights lawyer Janjira Janpaew, who has been monitoring the case.
A U.N. Commission of Inquiry report last year said that atrocities - including an indefinite military national service program that amounted to mass enslavement - had been committed since the country's independence and were ongoing.
Prosecutors argued earlier that Ntaganda not only personally committed crimes ranging from murder to rape, sexual enslavement and the use of child soldiers but also ordered and oversaw his troops committing similar atrocities.
Thousands of black laborers across the South were forced to work against their will as late as the 1960s—a new form of enslavement that went on in the shadows of rural America.
This is especially true in the case of scenes of enslavement, which begin with Prum being tricked and coerced into crossing the border into Thailand, along with other Cambodians in search of work.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, a prominent writer and MacArthur Genius grant recipient, posted a thread on Twitter analyzing the different "compromises made on enslavement from America's founding," including, among others, the Three-Fifths Compromise.
" Mr. Petrie drew comparisons with South Sudan, where the world was "so taken by the narrative of a new country emerging from northern enslavement that the signs of the emerging violence were ignored.
They decorated their palaces in Nineveh (present-day Mosul) and their other cities with carved limestone friezes showing scene after scene of battle and enslavement and mutilation, brutality of the most depraved sort.
A United Nations report on human rights under Kim's regime found that his government's crimes against humanity included enslavement, extermination, forced abortion, imprisonment, murder, rape and other forms of sexual violence, and torture.
One Twitter user suggested a trip to the restaurant for those who were "in the mood for imperialism and genocide for dinner," referencing the enslavement and abuse suffered by many natives under colonial rule.
The lore around Kalenda, sometimes spelled Calenda or Calinda, most likely originated from a form of stick fighting in Trinidad and Toabgo during the French occupation and enslavement of native people in the 1700s.
Refugees don't just experience violence in their home countries; they are also almost "universally victimized while they flee," Doctors Without Borders' Cone says — including becoming victims of torture, enslavement, and sexual violence in transit.
The American South based its economy on the enslavement of millions, and the two major parties — which by the 1850s were the Democrats and the Whigs — were willing to let the Southern states be.
Titled "The American Dream is Alie and Well" (2012), the work speaks to the lies, genocide, theft, decimation of land and cultures, and enslavement of people that laid the foundation for the United States.
The judges convicted Raia Mutomboki chief Frédéric Masudi Alimasi, who goes by the name Kokodikoko, along with two allies for murder, torture, enforced disappearances, sexual violence and enslavement committed over several months last year.
In H.R. 40, this body has a chance to both make good on its 2009 apology for enslavement, and reject fair-weather patriotism, to say that this nation is both its credits and debits.
In the museum, the history is told through rooms hung salon-style with documents, paintings and photographs that shed light on the French and Spanish colonial eras and enslavement, the Civil War and Reconstruction.
In some ways, the protests resembled the outcry over the Christopher Columbus statue at Columbus Circle, which some detractors want removed because of the explorer's enslavement and killing of indigenous people in the Caribbean.
Ms. Atwood is something of a scholar of Puritanism, and she said every horrific episode in the story happened somewhere in history already, whether stonings or enslavement, reproductive restrictions or forbidding women to read.
While Columbus was long hailed for bringing European civilization and settlement to the New World, present-day scholars acknowledge a far more complicated legacy including enslavement and subjugation of the indigenous inhabitants he encountered.
"I guess that the 'Roots' saga was the rite of passage for me and my daughter," she said, referring to the 1977 miniseries that traced a family's journey from enslavement in Africa to freedom.
"We remain deeply concerned by ongoing widespread and gross human rights violations and abuses in the DPRK, including summary executions, enslavement, torture, arbitrary detention, and enforced disappearances," said William Mozdzierz, head of the U.S. delegation.
For the scifi fans it's terrifying because it's one step closer to the kind of AI we put in robots we enslave and who eventually rebel, because the enslavement of digital intelligence is morally repugnant.
But the act of escaping one's enslavement is also an act of imagination — to envision what it might be like to not live in fear, to presuppose having one's will have meaning in the world.
From enslavement to persecution—servitude to survival—she ultimately created, in Breslaw's words, "a new idiom of resistance by overtly submitting to the will of her abuser while covertly feeding his fears of a conspiracy."
In this historical context, Joe becomes ingratiating and antiblack, a self-loathing Harvard-educated black man spouting the kind of pseudo-scientific babble that was used for centuries to justify the enslavement of his people.
You saw this in everything, from the genocide of indigenous people of America, to the Salem witch trials, to the colonial enslavement and so-called conversion of indigenous people, and on and on and on.
But if we have to have parties, we had better not, by our constitution, add deliberately to the enslavement of our representatives to the party machine and to the party ideology by introducing proportional representation.
It is thought that they have chosen this way of life following the widespread enslavement of indigenous peoples by European settlers, from the conquering of the country in the 1500s for well over 200 years.
Embedding the emotional costs of enslavement in Morrison's powerful language, Beloved spoke American history at the level of heart and gut, transforming the institution of slavery into tragedy with resonance for every reader and moviegoer.
But at the heart of the dispute is something far darker: French politicians' paternalistic pronouncements on the republic's duty to save Muslim women from enslavement — by dictating to them what they can and can't wear.
This year I've visited the Legacy Museum in Montgomery twice, and it beautifully illustrates in wide strokes how the enslavement of Africans led to the era of mass incarceration that we are living in now.
That Sloane was himself so happy to profit from the enslavement of human beings, harvesting his income from abroad while tending to his garden of marvels in London, bespeaks the politics that soak his collection.
Mainstream media coverage exposes what black communities have endured, fought against, and known to be true for over two centuries in this country and over half a millennium of enslavement and repression on this continent.
This graveyard's relationship to the second enslavement of black Americans in the 19th century makes it a crucially important archaeological find, and the scientific team should take all the time it needs to analyze it.
We saw it in the mass murder and enslavement of Yazidis in Iraq and Syria, where ISIS killed the old and infirm and the able-bodied men, and sold the women and children into slavery.
After being named head of Harvard's newly created Lawrence School of Science, Agassiz became an advocate for polygenism -- which the suit said was used to justify the enslavement of black people and, later, their segregation.
The reports, in all their horror — the dehumanizing gang rapes in front of family, the forced public nudity, the torture and sexual enslavement — all called to mind similar stories from my country, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
To improve race relations, education should be "accompanied by acts of reconciliation" to overcome bigotry and past injustices, while federal and state laws should recognize the negative impact of enslavement and racial injustice, the report added.
Derheim said that ancestry travel first became popular when Alex Haley's TV series "Roots," about a man's enslavement in West Africa and generations of his family's life in America, hit the airwaves way back in 1977.
Tales of rape and other horrific abuses of women had spread across Nineveh; of the capture and enslavement of non-Muslim women from Yazidi and Christian communities, acts that ISIS claims are justified in the Quran.
The measure comes amid a cultural reckoning about the legacy of the Civil War, with many citizens demanding the removal of statutes honoring leaders of a movement that fought to defend the enslavement of black people.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain on Friday rejected calls to force car wash owners to apply for licenses to prevent the abuse and enslavement of workers, in a move criticized by lawmakers as a missed chance.
She places the reader behind the eyes of the characters and touches on themes of oppression, marginalization, and enslavement as they journey across the broken landscape, in a desperate attempt to end the cycles of destruction.
In "The Lord of the Rings," we meet Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee, Hobbits of the Shire, on a fateful mission to destroy the last Ring of Power and save Middle-earth from enslavement and destruction.
He vigorously argues that there is a duty to debunk whitewashing about the Armenian genocide, British and French colonial massacres, Imperial Japan's sexual enslavement of women from Korea and other Asian nations, and the Srebrenica massacre.
Rasul said her medical colleague delivered the baby, a little girl, who immediately went to an adoptive family -- leaving one more teenage survivor of abuse, rape and enslavement who has returned home to an uncertain future.
To improve race relations, education should be "accompanied by acts of reconciliation" to overcome bigotry and past injustices, while federal and state laws should recognise the negative impact of enslavement and racial injustice, the report added.
"These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for," New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a speech following the city's monument removal.
And over the years, several writers and researchers have suspected that it was a convenient fiction, relied upon to help a mixed-race people evade enslavement and the other abuses and indignities forced upon nonwhite Southerners.
Even here in the US, we have New Orleans and Lower Manhattan, or, stepping further back, indigenous peoples who have survived genocide but not disappeared, as well as those who lived through enslavement and kept going.
" In a lengthy series of tweets, the author Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote that the "notion that Civil War resulted from a lack of compromise is belied by all the compromises made on enslavement from America's founding.
And the shock spreads and deepens when you delve into the larger, and continuing, story of American racial violence as told in another newly opened cultural site here, the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration.
Video conferencing is enabling trafficking victims to give evidence remotely in cross-border cases in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, while employment websites in southeast Asia are helping maids seeking work abroad avoid enslavement by abusive bosses.
She made multiple trips back to the South, however, and freed hundreds of others, becoming an instrumental figure in the Underground Railroad, a network of people who offered shelter to those traveling north to escape enslavement.
Books on the 1971 Attica prison uprising, the enslavement of Native Americans, and the health care system have won this year's Bancroft Prize, considered one of the most prestigious honors in the field of American history.
Coates said that, in his research for the book, he came across numerous references to water in relation to those forced into slavery, starting with the Middle Passage, when many jumped off ships to escape enslavement.
The invocation of Africa is also unsurprising; Massey is one of many Detroiters who look to Africa in her exploration of cultural roots that were obscured or severed by the enslavement of Africans in the Americas.
Furthermore, once you watch one Icke or Jones documentary, Amazon is happy to serve you more content about the Illuminati or the enslavement of the US via FEMA camps (thanks to Alex Jones again for that one).
Since Europeans set foot on this continent, it has been used to justify the mass murder and enslavement of Indigenous and Black men, while the same white men in power were systematically raping Indigenous and Black women.
After being named head of Harvard's newly created Lawrence School of Science, Agassiz became an advocate for polygenism -- the theory that the suit said was used to justify the enslavement of black people and, later, their segregation.
Kanye made it clear he's been discussing it with close friends and says the part of the Amendment he takes issue with is the part that allows for the enslavement -- or indentured servitude -- of anyone who's imprisoned.
It evokes not just the children of Israel in Egyptian enslavement but also movements that have used that story as inspiration for their own struggle for freedom during the American Civil War and the Civil Rights movement.
Homeless migrants are especially vulnerable to enslavement as they are less likely to seek shelter or support from charities for fear of being detained or deported, said Matthew Downie, director of policy and external affairs at Crisis.
Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said that the burkini represents the "enslavement of women," while former President Nicolas Sarkozy, who announced his 2017 presidential campaign this week, described it as a "provocation" that supports radical Islam.
Still, the great, aching gift of the novel is that it offers, in its own way, the very thing that enslavement denied its descendants: the possibility of imagining the connection between the broken threads of their origins.
The profit that Sloane reaped from the enslavement of his fellow human beings and the total absence of humanity that he saw in those human beings is also surreal to us—or at least it should be.
"We're trying to tell the story of a people's journey from enslavement to almost freedom," explained the museum's president, Terri Lee Freeman, who said more than 2800,000 visitors from 70 countries stopped at the Lorraine last year.
The film was controversial in its home country for its frank portrayal of the enslavement of the Roma people, a practice which lasted nearly 500 years before being abolished in 1856, and which remains a sensitive subject.
Islamic State redrew the map of the Middle East in 2014 when it declared its ultra-radical Sunni Islamist "caliphate" and established a rule known for mass killings, sexual enslavement and meting out punishments such as crucifixion.
School textbooks in Indian states ruled by the B.J.P. governments are being rewritten to erase India's "Muslim past" or reduce the centuries of rule by Mughal emperors and other Muslim rulers to one of darkness and enslavement.
We have always been treated as a problem here, made to feel as if we are not full citizens of our country, been made to feel ashamed of the fact that our story here starts with enslavement.
Borders imply restrictions, and restrictions are very difficult for certain groups, like women, to overcome; but slaves and free people of color can, according to Hahn, sometimes cross "the apparent borders of enslavement" to win public support.
A possibility that quickly occurs to the main character is that this infection might be different in some way, and that this particular version of Mind Flayer enslavement carries with it the possibility to become almost superheroic.
It's fascinating to see how Houellebecq rises to the challenge of making female domestic enslavement seem palatable in the novel, not just to the Islamo-curious François but also, to some extent, to the women of France.
This drives modern slaves in Britain deeper into debt - often forcing them to obtain money from relatives abroad or instant loan providers - making it harder to escape enslavement, according to research led by the university's management school.
Forrest said the Global Slavery Index aims to measure the prevalence of slavery in the 167 most populous countries as well as the level of vulnerability of people to enslavement and strength of government efforts to combat this.
Both born on the island that saw the hemisphere's first maroon communities of Afro-descended and indigenous peoples, each artist's larger bodies of work theorize the prismatic and intertwined legacies of enslavement and fugitivity in the African diaspora.
The abolition of enslavement posed one crisis, the expansion of enfranchisement, another; both efforts are works in progress, as persons of color, women, and others continue to struggle, despite setbacks, for their due place in the American polity.
Although pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians did share a meal in 1621, this feast was followed by centuries of broken treaties; murder, rape, and arson; theft of land and property; kidnapping and enslavement, as well as torture and imprisonment.
Recent scholarship (notably Edward E. Baptist's "The Half Has Never Been Told") has emphasized both the systemic cruelty and the economic basis of enslavement, and Mr. Parker forcefully dismantles some of the lingering mythology about the Old South.
In truth, it is an indictment of the policy, revealing that taxing those with the bad luck to die was an idea spawned by tyrannical regimes whose essential business model was the conquering and enslavement of other peoples.
After its sudden advance across swathes of Syria and Iraq in 2014, the group held about a third of both countries, but its wholesale slaughter or sexual enslavement of minorities and its grotesque public killings roused global anger.
As it turns out, after centuries of enslavement and state violence against black people, decades of plunder of black wealth and resources, and herding black people into the least desirable neighborhoods, the byproducts of poverty and trauma emerge.
Over the course of the miniseries, our rabbit heroes will constantly be on the brink of succumbing to captivity, enslavement, and death, all in their efforts to find and establish their home at the titular warren, Watership Down.
In dry legal prose that did not camouflage the violent class struggle waged by the Khmer Rouge, the verdict repeated certain words: murder, extermination, enslavement, imprisonment, torture, persecution on political grounds and other inhumane acts against human dignity.
"We're discovering things that complicate the hell out of our history, demanding that we reject the myths we've been taught," said Gregorio Gonzáles, 29, an anthropologist and self-described Genízaro who writes about the legacies of Indian enslavement.
So the fact that they practice a non-Muslim faith, and the fact that ISIS invaded their land in a time of war, meant that in the view of the terrorist group, they were fully eligible for enslavement.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Pope Francis condemned on Thursday the exploitation of women and children for prostitution in Thailand, which is notorious for its sex tourism, saying the violence, abuse and enslavement they suffer are evils that must be uprooted.
The country is expected to this year pass a Modern Slavery Act to tackle the risk of forced labor in supply chains, protect people vulnerable to enslavement such as migrant workers and compensate victims of slavery, politicians said.
The Yugoslavia tribunal, which received reports of more than 20,000 rapes in Bosnia, went further, ruling that systematic rape could also be treated as enslavement, torture and a weapon to destroy lives, and therefore as a war crime.
"Here, we have the alpha and the omega of enslavement in North America," Mr. Givens said, pointing at some tall brick walls and, next to them, an archaeological site where two women in dusty galoshes pored over clipboards.
I had planned to use the visit as a way to work through the conflict I had been feeling about the kind of education depicting enslavement in film and on TV can provide versus the harm it can create.
While the exhibition's legal documents and letters don't always make for the most compelling visual artifacts, the curators bring their contents to life by surfacing eight legal cases that resulted in freedom or enslavement for Africans living in California.
From day one, audiences have watched Mary Jane struggle with being the main breadwinner in her family, a dynamic many successful black people deal with, since generational wealth is harder to pass down after centuries of enslavement and segregation.
Murad Ismael said many Yazidi women and girls had been brainwashed or killed in captivity, while those who had managed to escape after years of enslavement and rape were left struggling to survive without an income or identity papers.
Based on the true story of Iraqi women who took up arms against Islamic State after escaping enslavement, a female battalion leads an attack on the jihadists while their brothers in arms prefer to wait for U.S. air strikes.
While this kind of categorization and labeling contributes to the kind of detrimental othering that leads to civil war, colonialism, and enslavement, it also bolsters the pro-choice cause and decisions to test potentially life-saving drugs on mice.
In a 20153 manifesto, " Liberating Life ," he writes that "the 22015,22013-year-old history of civilization is essentially the history of the enslavement of women," and argues that no genuine political emancipation can happen without first achieving gender equality.
The inquiry found that "officials at the highest levels of state," including the ruling party and military commanders of the East African nation, "have committed and continue to commit" crimes including enslavement, imprisonment and disappearances, torture, rape and murder.
She headed a unit that investigated mass rape and sexual enslavement in Bosnia and Herzegovina and helped win the landmark Foca cases, named for the Bosnian town where sexual crimes were committed against Muslim women in 21988 and 21993.
The charges include murder, rape, torture, and sexual enslavement, and relate to atrocities allegedly committed between 2002 and 2005 in northern Uganda, including four attacks on camps for internally displaced people (IDP) in which hundreds were killed and abducted.
Under the Leahy Law, United States military aid funds must be cut off to any foreign military unit implicated in gross human rights violations, which includes the practice of bacha bazi, with its enslavement and rape of young boys.
One of the most baffling creations in comedy film history, this animation-meets-live-action hybrid casts NBA All-Star Michael Jordan opposite iconic rabbit Bugs Bunny in a basketball-fueled, intergalactic battle to end Looney Tunes enslavement. Yep.
But in this sense porn also presents an opportunity to reconsider the tendency to just drift along with technological immersion, a chance where the moral stakes are sharpened to prove we don't have to accept enslavement to our screens.
Cho is accused of organizing an online network that lured at least 74 women, including 16 underage girls, into what authorities have called "virtual enslavement" by blackmailing them into sending increasingly degrading and sometimes violent sexual imagery of themselves.
There, black people were often key pioneer players, such as Bass Reeves, who escaped enslavement to become a United States deputy marshal, and Bill Pickett, who invented the rodeo sport of bulldogging, or wrestling a steer with bare hands.
Allowing the administration breathing space to mainstream the agenda into U.S. national security objectives gives it a chance to help the many women who remain in captivity, and those women and girls still at risk of capture and enslavement.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A dramatic surge in the number of online child sex abuse images uncovered in Britain has stoked fears about the growing sexual exploitation and enslavement of children worldwide via technology, anti-slavery campaigners said on Monday.
The current systematic murdering, torture, enslavement, kidnapping, raping and persecution of religious and ethnic minorities in territories dominated by the Islamic State constitutes the very same type of evil that we like to comfortably pretend is confined to only history books.
Liesbeth Zegveld, a lawyer who helped to prepare the case, believes that the Bangladeshi worker was a victim of what is essentially enslavement, and told de Volksrant that foreign labourers in Qatar are more or less owned by their bosses.
The player is one CPU—the actual CPU in the computer they are playing on—who is fighting against the Overlords and their human Masters to break the firewalls, enslavement routines and killer viruses to escape the digital chains of slavery.
The genocide of Native Americans, the forced enslavement of blacks, and the system of Jim Crow all reinforced a system of privilege — and corresponding abuse against people of color — that became codified into law, public policy, institutions and our national culture.
The very materiality of these objects in proximity to one another, each object identified with its museological data, trace back to the same geography, and the brutal conditions of enslavement that enabled the acquisition of wealth represented by the silver.
PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Manuel Valls defended a ban on burkinis in more than a dozen coastal towns on Thursday, saying France was locked in a "battle of cultures" and that the full-body swimsuit symbolized the enslavement of women.
In his presentation of "The Blacker the Berry" and "Alright" at this year's Grammys, he equated the mass imprisonment of black Americans in the present with their enslavement in the past, and contrasted this state with the freedoms of African dance.
These days he is probably best known as a prophet of The Singularity, one of the leading voices predicting that artificial intelligence will soon surpass its human creators — resulting in either our enslavement or immortality, depending on how things shake out.
"Despite much progress over the centuries, this hearing is another important step in the long and heroic struggle of African-Americans to secure reparations for the damages inflicted by the enslavement and post-emancipation and racial exclusionary policies," Glover, 72, said.
Saadi Gaddafi, who has been held in the capital Tripoli since his extradition from Niger in 2014, was found not guilty of "murder, deception, threats, enslavement and defamation of the former player Bashir Rayani," a statement from the ministry said.
In its decision, the IRB explained that at the time Charles Taylor's organization was delivering arms to the RUF, the militia was involved in rape, enslavement, torture, and murder all around Sierra Leone—acts that amount to crimes against humanity.
About 1,500 have already arrived in Bangladesh this month, bringing with them reports of continued violence by Myanmar's authorities, including the abduction of girls and young women, enslavement and forced starvation, said Masud Bin Momen, Bangladesh's ambassador to the United Nations.
"When Zip code determines what kind of school that you go to, when Zip code determines what kind of food you eat — these are the vestiges of enslavement that a lot of people don't want to deal with," she said.
She's joined in her crime spree by Hattie LaCour, who, after 21 years of enslavement, disguised herself as a man to fight in the Civil War, then found herself on the run after knifing a man who raped and beat her.
China continues to commemorate the martyrs of entire cities at the hands of Japanese World War II occupiers, while South Korea seethes at the enslavement of its people by the Japanese colonial rule and Tokyo's alleged refusal to pay war reparations.
Schulz's focus on European-American conductors of the Underground Railroad overlooks some of the most important people in this process: Maroons, the African-Americans who, against all odds and legal barriers, extricated themselves from enslavement and formed self-reliant resistance communities.
Over the next couple of weekends, I'm visiting what remains of two Underground Railroad stations, ruins and relics of black resistance to enslavement: Prospect Bluff, along the Apalachicola River, just a few miles away, and Fort Mose in St. Augustine.
We hear more about the triangular trading system that carried enslaved people, manufactured goods and cash crops between West Africa, the Caribbean, America, Europe and the British colonies, learning how the enslavement of African people was part of the world's economy.
Her latest book, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016), examines representations of Black life through the lens of the wake — a powerful analytic and literary concept that connects the experience of enslavement to contemporary violence, mourning, survival, and joy.
The ultra-hardline group carried out mass killings, torture, sexual enslavement and indoctrination in areas it captured in Syria and Iraq in 2014 and staged attacks around the world, meaning captives pose a security risk and are also vulnerable to reprisals.
The "Accumulations" are compositionally similar to Mel Edwards' "Lynch Fragments" — small, dense, welded-iron wall works relating to America's history of enslavement and institutionalized, racially motivated violence — to which Edwards has periodically returned since starting the series in the early 1960s.
The Whitney gives visitors the opportunity to learn how the modern American economy — not just the "Old South" — was built by the pornographic, inhumane, and (for owners of enslaved people, like Heidel, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert E. Lee) lucrative enslavement of black people.
Amid conversations over how best to acknowledge the extent to which Charlottesville's history was formed by racism, enslavement and discrimination, the removal of the auction block plaque by a white activist has raised new questions about who should shape that narrative, and how.
As the history of enslavement and the denial of rights to black Americans shows, American democracy has always been a tenuous and unfinished project, a failure to live up to its ideals and often, a failure to even try to do so.
The great power of her artistry lay in what her characters didn't say, or said differently than other people, because they spoke in two languages at once: the language of memory, which predated their enslavement, and "American," particularly that of the South.
But the expulsions raise the specter that the ultra-hardline group's anticipated demise could trigger yet more conflict, if Iraqis seek to root out sympathizers and pursue retribution outside the law for Islamic State crimes they say include massacre, rape and enslavement.
This back-and-forth vocal styling paid dividends on From Enslavement to Obliteration, as the recording not only sounded better—you could actually hear the instruments independent from one another on this record—and the band had become more deliberate in their attacks.
Today they confront grief over the remaining missing, a lack of mental health services for those returning after the trauma of enslavement, mass displacement as homes remain out of reach, and a shortage of economic opportunities which exacerbates all the other ills.
She grew up hearing her mother's songs of age-old Karen enslavement at the hands of the Burmese, the country's majority ethnic group ("They took our alphabet and holy books"), and saw her father disemboweled by Burmese bandits in their village home.
US history -- including the genocide of millions of Native Americans and the enslavement of millions of Africans -- is not properly taught in many schools, and civil rights and black history are seemingly viewed as matters for only black people to know about.
They nevertheless had experience with the practice well before they applied it to their own leaders: Rome's destruction of Carthage around 146 BCE spelled not only death and enslavement for Carthage and its people, but also obliteration of its monuments and historical records.
U.S. forces captured Umm Sayyaf, who we suspect is a member of ISIL, played an important role in ISIL's terrorist activities, and may have been complicit in what appears to have been the enslavement of a young Yezidi woman rescued last night.
Our reporter spoke to a doctor in Iraq who has treated over 1,000 women subjected to repeated rape under ISIS rule, and visited a camp where the scene of barely conscious women and girls underscored the cost of sexual enslavement to the militants.
At the series's lowest moments (like the penectomy/enslavement plot that takes place in what I started to think of as Fast-Forward Dungeon), it can feel as airless and acrid as "The Walking Dead," just another macho cable wallow in sadism.
The history of New York's Underground Railroad — the financial and physical ramifications of enslavement here, the streets we walk on every day and the bodies that built them — is a narrative we all need to know as we move toward this country's future.
U.S. forces captured Umm Sayyaf, who we suspect is a member of ISIL, played an important role in ISIL's terrorist activities, and may have been complicit in what appears to have been the enslavement of a young Yazidi woman rescued last night.
Mireille Fanon Mendes-France, the working group chair and a French human rights expert, told VICE News that the US hadn't properly addressed the legacy of enslavement or adequately provided necessary redress for those who are descended from Africans forcibly resettled in bondage.
In 21 alone, well over one million people—largely from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Eritrea—were willing to cross deserts on foot, risk capture and enslavement in Libya, barbed wire and internment in the Balkans, or drowning in the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe.
Written and directed by Unity's Veselin Efremov, along with various in-house animation, VFX, and character and production design talent, Adam tells the story of an enslaved robot who walks out into the open air and into freedom—or maybe a new type of enslavement.
In Blade Runner 2049, characters still refer to replicants' inferiority (in one conversation, a replicant is told that he doesn't have a soul), but it's become even more obvious that this is a lie — a necessary fiction to continue their enslavement by "real" humans.
Proponents of the French bans argued that the burkini violates the country's laws on secularism, with leading politicians describing the garment as a form of female "enslavement"; but critics viewed the bans as sexist and Islamophobic, saying they would only further stigmatize Muslim women.
We don't know a lot of details about Kamehameha's violent campaigns — since less developed societies did not write as much down as, say, Christopher Columbus or Thomas Jefferson — but we can assume that he, as a king and conqueror, oversaw mass enslavement, rape and torture.
Books about war, racism and slavery also dominated the list of nonfiction nominees, which included two books about slavery, by Manisha Sinha and Andrés Reséndez, who wrote about American Indian enslavement, and a history of racism in the United States, by Ibram X. Kendi.
" These crimes against humanity entail "extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation.
Islamic State, which is putting up fierce resistance to a U.S.-backed offensive to retake Mosul, the group's last major stronghold in Iraq, has been accused of massacre, enslavement and rape since it swept across large swathes of the country's north and west in 2014.
Not only where the islands he first landed on in 1492 inhabited by the Taíno people, but the arrival of Columbus and his men ushered in an era of enslavement, disease, and destruction that resulted in mass deaths of the native people on the island.
These include an inability to assert basic human rights, lack of access to essential social and economic services (especially schools, health care and credit); the failure of the rule of law; and, an absence of services for slavery survivors that leads to re-enslavement.
Since his affection for Trump became a matter of public controversy, West has started offering various ill-considered ideas about American history to justify it, ranging from blaming enslaved black people for their own enslavement to offering the insight that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.
Beloved, the 1988 novel that viscerally depicts the psychological impact of slavery through the story of a woman who kills her child rather than force her to endure a life of enslavement, was the rare national bestseller that was also hailed as a literary masterwork.
Even before the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, then the centerpiece of Judaism, and the ensuing transport and enslavement of Jewish prisoners to Rome, there had been Jews living in the city and southern provinces, where they had arrived as traders and refugees.
In separating the whirring motor from its sonics — funneling them instead into a nearby listening room — Beasley creates an opportunity for reflection rooted in the aural, reminding visitors of the violent separations inherent to enslavement, and thus crucial to the founding of this nation.
Maureen Costello, director of Teaching Tolerance, a program at the Southern Poverty Law Center that promotes diversity education, said the rubric used to analyze the textbooks was about seeing how the history of enslavement was integrated throughout a book and exactly what those contents were.
The atrocities continue — the glaring police brutality, the staggeringly disproportionate numbers of black men in the prison system, the racial wage gap and any number of other disparities that come along with a nation founded upon enslavement of nonwhite people — but we galvanize our grief.
Beginning in 1997, the United States instituted broad economic sanctions against the Sudanese government in response to a vicious cycle of human rights abuses, which included the enslavement of women and children, indiscriminate bombings, torture, enforced disappearances, and, among others, the denial of religious freedom.
In any case, prompt signing of the bill by President Trump will make it much less likely that criminal online traffickers can profit from exploitation and despair, and much more likely that thousands of women and children will be protected from enslavement and abuse.
They should combat "the forms of enslavement that continue to violate human dignity even in the age of human rights; the refugee camps which at times seem more like a hell than a purgatory; the systematic discarding of all that is no longer useful, people included".
Not just through hunger, poverty, brutal physical and sexual violence, but also by taking away women's right to tell their own stories: In the book, as Murad finally escapes, she is made to recount the ordeal of her enslavement and escape by Kurdish officials on camera.
The State Department recently announced a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture, describing him as one of the group's most senior ideologues, who played a direct role in organizing and justifying ISIS's rape and enslavement of women from the Yazidi minority in Iraq.
In the brochure, Mr. Rowland traces the roots of racial imbalance in prisons to what has been called the re-enslavement of newly freed blacks in the South after the Civil War, a term that gained usage after Douglas A. Blackmon's searing 2009 book on the subject.
Instead, he inherited a profitable business that had been passed down through his family since the late 1800s—a time when blacks were just stepping out of legal enslavement and about to face the horrendous Jim Crow laws that kept the white supremacy of slavery intact.
The book tells the story of two half sisters unknown to each other and of the six generations that follow, their lineages broken by enslavement and cursed by premonitions that condemned those who were captured, those who were spared and those who sold hostages to the Europeans.
"These crimes against humanity entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation," the report read.
The average NFL player makes over a million dollars, a far cry from enslavement of old, but that same fear of black men in revolt lurks in those who maligned and raged against Kaepernick's silent protest -- from NFL owners and fans to corporate sponsors and President Trump.
Language is offensive when it seems to harken nostalgically to the capture and enslavement of blacks to serve their white masters, to the lynchings, to the cross burnings, to the poll taxes, and to the Nuremberg laws in Nazi Germany requiring racial purity to save Aryan civilization.
"People across the country are waking up to the reality that these tributes to the Confederacy perpetuate the idea of white supremacy and glorify a regime that supported the torture, murder and enslavement of black people," said Heidi Beirich, director of SPLC's Intelligence project, in a statement.
Years later, we have West wearing a Make America Great Again cap, blaming enslaved people for their own enslavement, and otherwise engaging in what Lodge and Taber describe as a process whereby conscious deliberation about political issues serves to mostly backfill what's already been triggered automatically.
A panel made up of the center's staff, an independent education researcher with a background in middle- and high-school education and a history professor with expertise in the history of slavery looked at how the books depicted enslavement, evaluating them with a 30-point rubric.
That's a reaction of an average liberal, deeply conscious of ours as a nation founded on some excellent principles of governance, but also on genocide and ethnic cleansing (of Native Americans), enslavement (of black Africans) and conquest (of most of the west, taken from Mexico and Spain).
I'm aware that the context of Europe in the 1930s-'40s and that of the American South in 2017 are very different; after all, many of the self-proclaimed Nazis in Charlottesville, VA also marched with Confederate flags, showing support for the enslavement of Black people in this country.
They should explain, for example, that they went up in the late 1800s and early 1900s to signify the restoration of white political hegemony and its troubling, post-civil war manifestation: a new form of enslavement for Southern blacks, such as their loss of voting and civil rights.
In New Orleans, the statues slated for removal depict Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and P.G.T. Beauregard: three of the most prominent members of the Confederate States of America -- leaders of a movement that committed treason against the U.S. and tried to implement a permanent state of black enslavement.
In 2016, Congo, Iraq, Nigeria, and Rwanda all were on the CSPA list, but none of them appeared on Tier 3 of the TIP report—a clear signal that the U.S. treats enslavement of children as soldiers less seriously than it treats other forms of sex and labor trafficking.
Not much is known about the sequel to the 1996 film, although the story could follow in the footsteps of Michael Jordan's hit film in which he teamed up with iconic Looney Toons characters such as Bugs Bunny to free them from enslavement from a rival alien basketball group.
Mukwege, a gynecologist who set up a hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has treated thousands of rape survivors who suffered traumatic injuries at the hands of warring militias, while Murad is an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist who survived enslavement at the hands of Islamic State militants.
A deeply disturbing new element in the Islamic State's practice of sexual enslavement: Fighters who assault, trade and sell girls and women they seized from an ethnic minority in Iraq have been giving them birth control because pregnancy, per medieval injunction, ends the fighter's religious right to rape her.
But the target in Wednesday's strike, a man known as Zaki Shingali, is considered a hero to many members of the embattled Yazidi minority in northern Iraq, whose women and girls were forced into sexual enslavement by the Islamic State and whose men were killed by the thousands.
The wreckage — yet to be excavated and formally verified — has galvanized historians and reawakened the pain of enslavement among African-American descendants of the Clotilda captives, some of whom still live in what is called Africatown, a community not far from downtown Mobile that was founded by their forebears.
To be fair, it's hard to conceive of anyone who could step into a role this iconic, played so brilliantly by Williams, and not be intimidated out of all self-expression, but Smith also quite understandably seems to present his character as spiritually worn down by his enslavement.
Andrés Reséndez, a professor at the University of California, Davis, won for "The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which argues that it was mass slavery at the hands of Spanish conquistadors, rather than epidemics, that devastated the Native American population.
Imagine a country that has engaged in the enslavement of a large group of its people, and freed them only after a bloody civil war, only to oppress them in other ways — through mob killings, withholding their right to vote, segregation into impoverished communities, and a punitive criminal justice system.
When I was a boy, I did not know he was one of the most important figures of the Confederacy, which enshrined a permanent form of black enslavement in its constitution because its leaders believed white people were superior and blacks should always be viewed as lesser and as servants.
The suspect, identified by the ICC as Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, was indicted for crimes allegedly committed as de-facto chief of Islamic police in Timbuktu in 2012 and 2013 including destroying cultural monuments and enforcing policies that led to sexual enslavement of women and girls.
The commission of inquiry recommended that the United Nations Security Council refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court to answer for widespread crimes against humanity, including extrajudicial killings, the enslavement of tens of thousands of detainees in a network of prison camps, torture, rape, and religious and political persecution.
This was due in large part to BBC DJ John Peel championing the band early on, helping get Scum to number seven on the UK indie charts, and allowing for the band's second album, From Enslavement to Obliteration, to go to number one on that same chart just a year later.
"This historically problematic holiday — Columbus never actually set foot on the continental U.S. — has made an increasing number of people wince, given the enslavement and genocide of Native American people that followed in the wake of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria," writes Yvonne Zipp for The Christian Science Monitor.
Quoting everyone from Martin Luther King, Jr., to controversial Catholic twentieth-century theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, referencing African-American spirituals and black enslavement in America, Curry's sermon was a far cry from what might be seen as the "traditional," aristocratic Anglican sermon you might expect from a royal wedding.
Like the Brothers Grimm and the British novelist Angela Carter, Smith's witchy fairy tale domain has its own taxonomy and colors (blood-red, turquoise, sapphire, silver); like the artist Kara Walker, whose silhouettes suggest a hieroglyphic alphabet of enslavement and revolt, Smith's insular world is by turns claustrophobic and expansive.
But to compare these conditions to those of concentration camps, which, since the Nazi era, have taken on a specific meaning of bestiality, enslavement and annihilation, is to dilute the meaning of language, do history a disservice and unfairly ascribe to democratic European countries an essentially Hitlerian approach to the issue.
The heartbreak and fear Abeo suffers in the early days of her enslavement are particularly terrible, as she learns from the other girls the reason they were all sent there: because they are told they are evil and must make up for it so that their families may live happily once again.
" The UN Commission also found that North Korea perpetrates "systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations" that entail not only a denial of all basic freedoms, but also the regime's threat of "extermination, murder enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, (and) persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds.
The RIDDLE Effect also includes later works from Riddle's career, including a series of mixed media collage works depicting not just the dehumanizing treatment of African people as commodities during the transatlantic slave trade, but also the resistance and ingenuity of Africans through centuries of enslavement and forced migration to the Americas.
" The artist went on to say, "This is a project about freedom and emancipation and hopefully people will rethink the history of enslavement both looking at the horror and brutality, but even much more looking at the agency and self-determination and fighting spirit and resistance that happened all along the way.
The end of the Entrada is rekindling debate over how to portray New Mexico's complex history, marked by centuries of enslavement of Native Americans, military conquest by Spain and the United States and attempts to depict the state as a place where Hispanics, Native Americans and Anglos, or non-Hispanic whites, peacefully coexist.
"As we make progress in defeating ISIS and denying them their caliphate, their terrorist members have and continue to target multiple religions and ethnic groups for rape, kidnapping, enslavement and even death," said Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, referring to the Islamic State, in brief remarks Tuesday morning at the State Department.
This report details what we heard and witnessed directly from Rohingya women when we traveled to the refugee camps of Kutapalong and Thyankhali in Bangladesh, in February this year: they and their communities have experienced murder, imprisonment, enforced disappearance, torture, rape and sexual slavery and other forms of sexual violence; persecution and enslavement.
Perhaps it shouldn't surprise us that ideas about Africans and their supposed lack of history and culture were used to justify the enslavement of millions of Africans throughout the New World, especially during the 13th century when sugar production was reaching a zenith in Cuba and cotton was making growers and manufacturers rich.
"An American president has yet to muster up the courage to formally apologize for the 400 heinous years of rape, death and inhumanity that occurred during the enslavement of black people in this country that still impacts million of slave descendants," an audience member told Sanders before asking whether he'd apologize for it.
The ICC alleges that Al Hassan was the de facto chief of the Islamic police after the takeover of one of the world's oldest cities and that he participated in the policy of forced marriages, which led to the repeated rape and sexual enslavement of women and girls in Timbuktu and the surrounding region.
On the opposing side, representations of enslaved Africans, Andrew Jackson, Robert Moses, J. Edgar Hoover, Strom Thurmond, the Koch Brothers, Donald Trump, and the wealthy, demonstrate a darker unfolding of the country that begins with enslavement and ends with the profit of a few at the expense of the many — a straight line of injustice.
Mr. Jones is a radio and online fabulist who has made millions by parlaying bogus "reports" of imminent civil war, government enslavement and mind control into sales of fish oil, "emergency survival foods" and Infowars-branded AR-15 components that purchasers can use to build a military-style rifle not readily traceable by federal authorities.
In North Korea, these crimes "entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation," concluded a 2014 United Nations report that examined North Korea.
These are men who violated their oaths of allegiance to the United States, who led a titanic and bloody rebellion in order to preserve the enslavement of their fellow human beings and whose actions resulted in the deaths of an estimated 800,000 souls — not to mention an unimaginable number of wounded and permanently disabled.
The new (and dispiriting) Martin McDonagh play, "A Very Very Very Dark Matter," spins a yarn of appropriation and even enslavement, in which the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen has an unexpected ghost writer: a one-legged Congolese "pygmy" (the American newcomer Johnetta Eula'Mae Ackles) whom he keeps in a cage in his attic.
The sugar industry is responsible for the enslavement of Africans by the millions, for the displacement of Native Americans from cultivable lands, for the rise of the industrial age and formation of class structures, as sugar kept factory workers satiated—and of course today we are well aware of the global health consequences of over consumption of sugar.
To me, there's a kernel of this thinking that seems to run parallel to both Christina Sharpe's powerful writings about "wake work," in relation to histories of enslavement in the United States, and Sadiya Hartman's insistence on the transient moments of beauty and joy missing from the archives of lives lived under this same oppressive system.
There are examples of individual people and some coalitions seeking compensation for their enslavement in the form of "ex-slave pensions" in the immediate decades following the Civil War, but the era of Reconstruction that followed did not see any concerted federal effort to apologize for slavery or provide any sort of payment to formerly enslaved people.
It's a monumentally difficult task (and the shifts in perspective do mean that the The Fifth Season takes some getting used to), but it's an incredibly effective tactic, allowing Jemisin not only to tell you the dangers of marginalization, enslavement, or oppression, but to let the reader experience it all through through the eyes of her characters.
These theories all tell the same larger narrative: That the world is secretly run by a nefarious cabal of globalists (who just happen to be Jewish), and that they employ an endless catalog of dirty tricks and "false flags" to ensure the world doesn't know about their manipulations, the whole point of which ultimately is the enslavement of mankind.
The key emotional note of the Dunning School was the idea that the Civil War itself, rather than the widespread enslavement that led to the Civil War, was tragic, and that the postwar effort of Radical Republicans in Congress to enfranchise the Southern black population had been "a serious error" that impeded restoration of the Union.
Hurston is best known for her groundbreaking novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," but it is her training as an anthropologist -- how her careful listening and writing preserved a record of a unique life -- that enabled "Barracoon" to challenge the dominant, popular story of the Middle Passage and African enslavement in ways that still teach us today.
So we learn that the zombies are not really zombies, but humans undergoing a process of mutation and psychic enslavement to a collective will called "the Many" (in retrospect, it's not hard to see writer / designer Ken Levine working on the themes of collectivism, individualism, and corporatism that would become over-familiar across the Bioshock franchise).
"Many tribes in the frontier region of Brazil and Peru are probably survivors of the rubber boom who witnessed the enslavement and atrocities against indigenous peoples and fled to the headwaters of the Amazon to evade capture," said Jonathan Mazower, an expert on isolated communities at Survival, a London-based organization that advocates greater protection for the groups.
Goth-kid-turned-librarian Leila Taylor explores similar themes in her treatise Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul and finds that compelling intersections between the gothic preoccupation with pain, horror, violence, and trauma makes goth culture uniquely suited to exploring while reckoning with America's history of enslavement, colonialism, and the unrelenting violence against Black bodies.
The same white power wing nuts who trolled him for years as a way of defending Taylor Swift's honor are now over the moon to hear the rapper blame President Barack Obama for not ameliorating gang violence in Chicago, to see Mr. West at the office of the gossip website TMZ blaming his own enslaved ancestors for their enslavement.
Joining the South Indian writer Benyamin's "Goat Days," a novel of modern-day enslavement in Saudi Arabia, and the British-Emirati director Ali Mostafa's "City of Life," a film that weaves together a cross-section of lives in Dubai, "Temporary People" is a robust, if somewhat scattered, entry into the nascent portrayal of migrant labor in the Gulf.
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Here's a sentence I never thought I would put in print: These days, it's good to be Kim Jong Un. The North Korean dictator, whose family is responsible for the death of millions of people and what amounts to the near enslavement of millions of his own citizens, is enjoying what can be described only as a personal renaissance over the past year.
The author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, who has written extensively about the Civil War, wrote on Twitter that the "notion that Civil War resulted from a lack of compromise is belied by all the compromises made on enslavement from America's founding," noting the existence of the Three-Fifths Compromise, The Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act among others.
Though science is not much in evidence when white nationalists take to the streets chanting slogans like "You will not replace us," scholars of racist ideology say contemporary white racism draws on the trope of "natural" racial hierarchy used to justify the enslavement of African-Americans, the American eugenics movement in the early 20th century and Nazi "racial hygiene" laws.
And I feel it not just because of the black people swept away but because I know that "gentrification" is but a more pleasing name for white supremacy, is the interest on enslavement, the interest on Jim Crow, the interest on redlining, compounding across the years, and these new urbanites living off of that interest are, all of them, exulting in a crime.
The game, portraying the eponymous invasion of the African continent by European powers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, seemed like one that portrayed the colonial period in Africa in a simplistic way, ultimately rewarding players for being the best at recreating a piece of history that included genocide in Namibia and mass enslavement in the Belgian Congo Free State.
The investigator, Marzuki Darusman, the special rapporteur monitoring developments in North Korea, also said in the report that "no tangible improvement" had been seen in the state of human rights in the country since a commission of inquiry two years ago implicated its leaders in wide-ranging crimes against humanity, including "extermination," murder, torture, enslavement and persecution on grounds of race, religion and gender.
After all, we're living in the era of Pizzagate, a time when outrageous Twitter claims about a child enslavement ring involving Hillary Clinton inspired a man to fire a gun into an unsuspecting pizza parlor in Washington, D.C. Politicians and journalists repeat and retweet hoax news stories on the regular, like one about Syrian refugees being relocated to Navajo reservations, repeated by Sean Hannity and Donald Trump.
Emotions run high when South Koreans talk about their country's historical disputes with Japan, especially the enslavement of Korean "comfort women" in front-line brothels for Japan's Imperial Army during World War II. But society has paid little attention to these Japanese women, some of whom were abandoned by their families in both countries and had to live with neither a Korean nor a Japanese passport.
" (Gay also points out that, despite providing countless hours of labor in the production of chocolate, slaves had little to no chance of actually getting a taste of the finished product.) Alloy and some unnamed "artists and community members" added some additional information to 1670's window design, changing the wording so it read "In 1670, The New American Chocolate Trade Increased Demand for Enslavement of Africans.
Avery's suffering, and above all his race, would seem finally to enable and validate the connections that the novel is keen to make: "Let My People Stay" can be freshly re-inserted into the rich and terrible history of African-American enslavement, to echo the political and liturgical work that its inversion, "Let My People Go," has long performed in black music and literature.
The funny thing is that while the Western public and a small part of the Russian public (first of all, the LGBTQ community) knows Miluzina best for her homophobic efforts and her continuous work at the re-enslavement of women, the most visible part of anti-Mizulina folklore on Russian internet is masculine and has nothing to do with either women's or LGBTQ rights defense.
But over all, the methodical use of birth control during at least some of the women's captivity explains what doctors caring for recent escapees observed: Of the more than 220 rape victims from the Yazidi ethnic group who have sought treatment so far at a United Nations-backed clinic in northern Iraq, just 22014 percent became pregnant during their enslavement, according to Dr. Nagham Nawzat, the gynecologist carrying out the examinations.
Comprised of a cotton gin motor encased in a sound-proof display case — the former of which he purchased on ebay and later rebuilt after a revelatory trip back to Virginia — "A view of a landscape" acts as a potent vehicle for exploring the legacy of enslavement in the US, and particularly the way the institution reduced human beings to property, no more than the sum of backbreaking, forced labor.
Fred Waterford is an ineffective leader and speaker whose trip to Canada is unlikely to convince their democratic government that a system of enslavement and institutionalized sex slavery is a great thing for the world, and with troops ready to roll a few hundred miles west of Boston, the Canadians might roll with the momentum Ofglen sparked in her bombing and come through for the formerly united states of America.

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