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2 Feb 2012, 7:34 am
The courts, which were based in the Caribbean, West Africa, Cape Town, and Brazil, helped free at least 80,000 Africans from captured slavers between 1807 and 1871. [read post]
3 Mar 2012, 3:37 pm
The courts, which were based in the Caribbean, West Africa, Cape Town, and Brazil, helped free at least 80,000 Africans from captured slavers between 1807 and 1871. [read post]
9 May 2022, 7:30 am
In fact, as she argues, forced pregnancy was key to the historic labor system of slavery in the United States — the children of enslaved mothers were themselves enslaved, and once the importation of African people for purposes of enslavement was banned in the United States in 1808, it was how slavers kept the system going and increased their own wealth, including by raping enslaved women. [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 5:30 pm
This week Tony Benn told a slavering press that he did not think he would see the day when Magna Carta was torn up, let alone by a Labour government. [read post]
25 Jun 2020, 4:39 am
Surely those who were brought here by slavers, but they’re long gone. [read post]
27 Aug 2008, 6:01 am
[V]irtue was in short supply, not only among the murderers, gamblers, slavers, squatters, and drunks who poured over the border from Georgia, but among the erstwhile elite. [read post]
21 Sep 2009, 2:04 pm
I am worried that NL has been discovered by child slavers… Pah, enough of the seaside. [read post]
6 Jun 2023, 3:25 am
Forget about his contributions to conservation because he was a slaver at a time when it was not unusual. [read post]
27 Dec 2020, 12:01 am
” In a case he heard riding circuit in Georgia about several captured slave trading ships, he found that a U.S. court could not enforce laws banning the slave trade against foreign slavers, and the slave traders were entitled to the return of their property. [read post]
3 Nov 2022, 6:20 am
In the affirmative action context, state universities give preferences to all black applicants, even if they were born in the Caribbean or Africa–and note that African immigrants may be descendants of slavers rather than slaves. [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 6:12 am
Though it doesn't mention her or her family, the Seguin Gazette-Enterprise in 1996 ran an historical profile of George Holloman, the slaver and patrolman who became her new master. [read post]
10 Oct 2022, 11:34 am
I also learned Columbus was a slaver and a murderer, which by that moment in my education was unsurprising to me. [read post]
12 Jun 2011, 5:50 pm
From the Blogs Brian Cathcart has a post on the Free Speech Blog “10 Things I’ve Learned about injunctions” Point 10 is For every time the law is an ass there is an occasion when the British tabloid press is a slavering pack of hyenas. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 12:59 am
I realize the media are slavering over this too. [read post]
28 Jan 2014, 7:30 am
” When they parted ways at the border of Canada, Douglass reports, “I shook hands with my friends, and received from Parker the revolver that fell from the hand of the slaver Gorsuch when he died, presented now as a token of gratitude and a memento of the battle for liberty at Christiana. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 6:45 am
The Telegraph reports, (Slavering?) [read post]
30 Jun 2017, 5:04 pm
Civilizational peril comes in many forms—sometimes malevolent philosophies, sometimes hostis humanis generis (pirates, slavers, and now terrorists), and in each epoch we must decide, like Thomas More in Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons, what must be preserved: ROPER: So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law! [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 6:42 am
Sign up to free human rights updates by email, Facebook, Twitter or RSS Related posts Harsher sentences for modern day slavers War crimes arrest warrant law to change Lies and damned lies: the standard of proof in asylum cases Filed under: Art. 3 | Torture / Inhumane Treatment, Case law, Case summaries, Immigration/Extradition, Terrorism Tagged: asylum seekers, human rights [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 4:19 pm
This past Tuesday (on September 14), Jake Brooks and David Gamage jointly appeared at the colloquium (Gamage by Zoom) for a discussion of their paper, The Indirect Tax Canon, Apportionment, and Drafting a Constitutional Wealth Tax. [read post]
22 Feb 2024, 9:38 am
In those essays, I took the position that there is at the very least no particular reason to freak out about changing the names of buildings, streets, cities, or anything else, much less to worry about supposedly "suppressing history" by removing statues and other iconography honoring slavers, mass murderers, and traitors. [read post]
