An instance or institution whereby individuals are forced to labor without compensation and usually such persons are considered property of other persons.
Questions tagged [slavery]
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Was it ever cheaper to starve slaves and replace them than to provide them with food?
In a recent opinion piece in the Guardian, historian David Olusoga makes this shocking claim about slavery in the 17th Century British Empire:
The system [Hans Sloane] witnessed and wrote about was one in which human beings were worked to death.…
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Were George Washington's teeth ripped from the mouths of living slaves?
I've seen lots of things about George Washington's teeth like this going around.
The real deal is George Washington had the teeth of his slaves in his mouth and not wood.. Wake Up my people they are still using us for body parts, Happy Presidents…
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Were many former American slaves put back into virtual slavery after the civil war?
The ACLU has been a critic of the 13th amendment to the US constitution for some time, claiming that the clause that reads that slavery shall not exist "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted" is a loophole…
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Was Columbus involved in sexual slavery?
The Oatmeal claims that Columbus engaged in sexual slavery.
Columbus began rewarding his lieutenants with sex slaves -- particularly young girls who had been forced into sexual slavery. In a letter to a friend, Columbus remarked upon how girls…
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Did the Irish Catholic church have slaves in Ireland as recently as 1996?
This article covers the topic well, but is more about the Irish government admitting collusion with the supposed slave holders.
Labelled the "Maggies", the women and girls were stripped of their names and dumped in Irish Catholic church-run…
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Did Jews own most of the plantations that deployed slaves in the United States?
In his 1983 book "Jews and Judaism in the United States", Rabbi Marc Raphael said: "in all the American colonies, whether French (Martinique), British, or Dutch, Jewish merchants frequently dominated.”
According to jewishencyclopedia.com: "The…
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Were more whites slaves brought to North Africa than black slaves were brought to the United States?
This quotation is attributed to Thomas Sowell
"More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in…
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Did the Constitution of the Confederate States of America ban the slave trade?
From 25 Strange Facts From History You Probably Didn’t Learn In School:
The Constitution of the Confederate States of America banned the slave trade.
Did the Confederate States of America banned the slave trade in their constitution?
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Are child slaves used to produce chocolate?
Many websites report that the pickers of cacao beans for chocolate are often illegal slave children, stolen from their homes, beaten every day, and not paid.
While Fairtrade labels indicate the chocolate was produced without child slavery, they are…
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What percentage of white people owned black slaves in the US?
I recently read a French post on Facebook saying that only 3% of white people owned slaves of African descent in the United States.
Here is a part of a debate in French quoting a twitter post about the initial claim.
Some more examples:
Jim Goad,…
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Were Irish prisoners shipped to America as slaves?
Global Research claims that Irish prisoners were shipped to the US as slaves, is this true?
The Irish slave trade began when 30,000 Irish prisoners were sold as
slaves to the New World. The King James I Proclamation of 1625
required Irish…
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Were "comfort women" well-paid?
"Comfort women" is a commonly used euphemism for sex slaves used by the Japanese army during World War II.
Negationists argue that "Comfort women" were not sex slaves, and make the specific claim that they were well paid, which would be inconsistent…
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Are these women “for sale in the market in Libya”?
This post has been shared 142,000 times.
The associated text reads:
Women for sale in the market in Libya, we are against slave trade. If you are against slave trade Share
Are these women in Libya, are they for sale in a market, and are they for…
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Was Christian Europe the first place to abolish slavery?
In discussions on the whether Christianity played a key role in the abolition of slavery in the Western world, I've read the claim that the Christian Europe state, around 800-1000 AD, was the first place where slavery was abolished.
For example,…
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Is sex slavery active in the Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates?
In Iran (as a neighbor of these countries from the north of Persian Gulf) it is common to hear claims that sex slavery is active in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. You can find some samples of these news such as the following:
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