Sentences with phrase «slave labor involved»

A critique of all that the plantation stands for, «Barrier Island» refers to the once wanton despoliation of natural resources and the slave labor involved.

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Getting them to an American jewelry store often involves destructive pit mining, slave or child labor, violent militias, and a long chain of middlemen that makes it hard to connect any of those undesirable inputs to the end product.

The marijuana was then trafficked to the U.S., where it was purchased and consumed by people who may not have been aware (or even cared) that their cheap high was the result of a system involving slave labor.

As for Greco - Roman civilization, it was based squarely on slave labor, and one of the profoundest differences between the ancient Mediterranean culture and our own is that there slavery was taken for granted along with a growing consciousness of the moral compromise it involved with man's best ideals, while with us liberty is taken for granted along with deep ethical discontent at the parallels of slavery, or worse, which exist under the wage system.

Would an absolutely autocratic master administration, involved in gigantic building operations, voluntarily and radically reduce its potential male slave labor?

For the High Line, Nazareth presents a grouping of cast cement watermelons — a conceptual artwork whose realization references both the corrupt labor policies involved in the construction of the iconic historical capital of Brasília, and the journey that watermelons — originally native to West Africa — made to the Americas alongside colonization and the slave trade.