Sentences with phrase «slave labor during»

In his current show «Birmingham» the artist examines the convict lease system that in many Southern US counties replaced slave labor during Reconstruction and into the Jim Crow era.

In Germany during the 1990s, victims of forced and slave labor during the Holocaust negotiating a compensation agreement with the German government objected that financial reparations alone would amount to blood money, an appeasement through payoff.

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And during the pre-Civil War years America's most valuable export was not capital goods or financial services, it was cotton, mostly produced by slave labor.

During a recent interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross, Winslow explained that in the past, Mexican drug cartels routinely kidnapped women and young girls — after murdering their husbands and fathers — and forced them into slave labor on giant marijuana farms.

Disputed Banksy Back at Auction — The alleged Banksy street artwork, Slave Labor (Bunting Boy), which depicts a young boy stitching Union Jack flags on a sewing machine, and was first painted during the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, is back at auction alongside works by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst, despite protestations from the council that represents the district in which the painting was made.