Sentences with phrase «slave market»

The men, one of them identified as a Nigerian, are victims of a growing industry of slave markets operating in several locations in Libya.»

Its infamous role as the largest slave market in Eastern Africa meant that at its peak an estimated 50,000 slaves passed through the island each year until slavery was outlawed in 1873.

One more thing: Dabiri also condemned the reported sale of Africans in a Libyan slave market as broadcast by CNN, saying this was unacceptable, despicable and inhuman.

From here, you can drive across the open desert to Rissani, a former slave market and now center of the huge oasis around it: the Tafilalet.

The new craze for chocolate brought with it a thriving slave market, as between the early 1600s and late 1800s, the laborious and slow processing of the cacao bean was manual.

Does it matter that a slaver bent on rape during the voyage down river to the New Orleans slave market stabs to death a black prisoner who tries to stop him?

Salvador's Pelourinho neighborhood bears the name of the Portuguese word for pillory, and was home to the first slave market on the continent.

But the crisis has created a situation where some African migrants are reportedly sold by their raiders in open slave markets.

The study indicates that out of the thousands of persons kidnapped in the north, only a few hundred — at most — ended up in the Caspian Sea region and Central Asia via the Volgan and Crimean slave markets.

This is Salvador Dali's Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire, which includes an illusion that lets observers perceive two possible images.

SLAVE MARKET FOODS: Studies, and a bit of common sense, show that classifications on the socio - economical scale such as low income, inner city and / or ethnic minority [Hispanic / Black] predisposes consumers (who are equal under the law to protections against harm) to diabetes, obesity and other health risks as grocery stores in their area tend to sell lower qualities foods while food producers price high quality (or even halfway decent) foods out of reach.

Crosby spends the last of their money to spring helpless Dorothy Lamour from a native slave market.

Most of the slaves taken in England were sold to farmers in the wild northern isles, or to Ireland, or sent back across the sea to the Danish lands, but some, I learned, were taken to the big slave markets in Frankia and a few were shipped south to a place where there was no winter and where men with faces the color of scorched wood would pay good money for men and even better money for young women.

They sprang forth as free people of color during the 1700's amid slave markets about an hour west in the city of Fayetteville and an hour southeast in the city of Wilmington.

A visit to Stone Town with its mix of European, Persian, Arabian and Indian history, will take you down a maze of alleys and to the buzzing Darajani Market, or history buffs can visit the old Slave Market.

Also among the highlights are St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Cathedral; Christ Church Anglican Cathedral commemorating the work of David Livingston in abolishing the slave trade and built on the site of the last slave market; and the residence of the slave trader Tippu Tip.

Several works directly or obliquely referenced the city's past as the site of the nation's largest antebellum slave market.

Pictures of slave markets and gross abuse...

Its rich history and old southern charm can be experienced through the architecture, the graveyard tours, the City Market (once the former slave market), and the food.

In the 1830s Kuta was a thriving slave market, attracting a wide variety of international «lowlifes».

The center of the district is Market Square, which has been operating since 1753 and was once the site of the second largest slave market in the United States.

In about 586, Gregory was in the slave market in Rome and noticed some slave boys with fair bodies and light hair.

They celebrated Easter by bombing an ancient church, and their slave markets list their «property» according to age and religion, with Christian and Êzidî girls from the age of one on sale.

Between 1980 and 1990, our African governments restored the slave market by bartering their populations for absolute domination.

Now all I need is a slave market, a wife - beating rod and an inquisition to persecute people I don't like.

We belong to the women who can't read, we belong to the women who have been stripped of every hope, who are being sold in slave markets, whose daughters are coming back to them with ripped apart virginity.

In addition to a formal interview system, affectionately known as the «Slave Market,» there is a more informal process of inquiry, word - of - mouth recommendation, and «jockeying for position» among those seeking or offering jobs.

I went under the interstate and to the slave market for about a year.

So I went to the «slave market» (day labor, show up at 5 a.m. and hope you get called to clean restrooms, work in warehouses or chop weeds..

I stayed in Albuquerque, lived in a street community and we share all we had, I can't count the people I aided with transportation needs because I had «wheels», worked from the slave market, skipped meals and saved enough money for fuel to get to Las Vegas, Nevada.

A number of these migrants, aside from being at the mercy of the harsh travel conditions, also have also had to be wary of the slave markets as they use the North African country as a transit to Europe.

Raids into the north were launched especially from Novgorod, which was well connected to the Crimea and, from there on, to the Caspian Sea and the slave markets of Central Asia.

There's a pretty harrowing sequence in a slave market that details how they actually processed him.

In this beautifully illustrated, true story from the Underground Railroad, Henry «Box» Brown makes a daring escape and mails himself to freedom after his family is sold in the slave market.

As she prepares to decide between the military and marriage, an impulsive investment at a slave market results in unexpected consequences.

The unnamed adult novel, to be published by Scribner, will be set in New Orleans, site of the country's largest slave market, and will center on an enslaved woman sent there from the Carolinas.

But the connection to the exploited and violated black body is made even more explicit in Nona Faustine's «From Her Body Sprang Their Greatest Wealth» (2013), in which Ms. Faustine photographed herself nude and standing on a crate at the intersection of Water and Wall Streets in Manhattan, the site of a slave market in earlier centuries.

«Black bodies were spectacles in slave markets and on lynching trees and whipping posts.

Rick Hills recently related his experience of eating in a former slave market, and questions the lack of slavery landmarks in the U.S.,

Anyone who has read Walter Johnson's searing account of the New Orleans slave markets can imagine that eating inside a slave market can have the chilling feeling of eating inside, say, a barracks at Dachau... Slavery's physical landmarks and artifacts seem mostly invisible in th [e] realm of public history...