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We do know that (at least one of) his dentures used human teeth, as you can see in this picture of the exhibit (taken from Snopes), which says:
Contrary to popular myth, Washington’s false teeth were not made of wood but of human and cow teeth as well as elephant ivory.
In addition, the official website of Mount Vernon notes that:
Washington bought human ...
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According to The Iniquity of Leasing Convict Labor Engineering Magazine September 1891, pages 749-757:
The convict lease system exists in all the Southern States, with the exception of Maryland and Delaware. ... composed almost wholly of the freedmen fresh from slavery and the tremendous and, to them, wonderful results of the greatest civil war in ...
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The initial quote that,
A hundred castellanos are as easily obtained for a woman as for a
farm, and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls;
those from nine to ten are now in demand, and for all ages a good
price must be paid.
comes from a letter that Christopher Columbus wrote while prisoner on a ship being sent back to Spain ...
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No. According to The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, in the section "Judaism in the Antebellum South" which begins at page 384:
About 5,000 Jews owned one or more slaves—about 1.25 percent of all the slaveowners
It says "a few" Jews owned plantations and lists Judah P. Benjamin as having a plantation with 140 slaves, Maj. Raphael J. Moses a ...
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Let's be clear about what is being claimed by that. Note the exact language - "slave trade." If the question is whether there was a ban on slavery, absolutely not. So.... "slave trade"??
Let's look at what the document actually says. The Confederate Constitution basically used the US Constitution as its starting point. The passage ...
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Historians routinely agree that the Irish were not slaves in the sense of chattel slavery (i.e. to distinguish it from indentured slavery). I cannot find ANY source in the article that you reference that would lend historical credibility to the claim. The most likely is "The King James I Proclamation of 1625," but
James issued many proclamations, so there ...
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Let's use the 1926 Slavery Convention (Geneva) definition of slavery. I'm using the wikipedia article as a reference, but the contents of this convention aren't under debate here, so:
"the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised"
If taking someone prisoner indefinitely ...
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The word "many" here, being part of the OP's question title, is important, and the relative numbers as reported by DavePHD in his answer already addresses this part of the question. As to the whole statement, I would argue that, with "many" being understood as a relative word, the ACLU's statement is "a fair assessment of the historical records."
The core ...
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Were more whites slaves brought to North Africa than black slaves were brought to the United States?
For the US, we have pretty detailed record keeping of how many slaves were imported, but for North Africa we do not.
The number of African slaves imported to the US is about 300,000, only a fraction of the approximately 12.5 million that were brought to the Americas in total.
As for the number of white slaves brought to North Africa, it depends on whose ...
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Whether the following qualifies slavery as the "principal" cause of the Civil War is a matter of some subjectivity, but we can determine that slavery was the primary reason for the South's secession.
In his book The creation of Confederate nationalism: ideology and identity in the Civil War South, historian Drew Gilpin Faust explains:
leaders of the ...
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Yes, almost certainly.
There is ample documentation that many of the workers in cocoa factories in Cote D'Ivoire are trafficked, which essentially means forced to labour against their will. Wikipedia has the basic facts:
In 2002, Côte d'Ivoire had 12,000 children with no relatives nearby, which suggested they were trafficked, likely from neighboring Mali,...
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There is surprisingly little information about this available. The information that does exist is almost entirely based on different interpretations of the 1860 census (except of course for the claims that do not name any sources).
This seems to be the more relevant claim from Goad:
At the peak of black slavery in the South, only 6 percent of Southern ...
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I thought the quote above was pretty damning too, until I read the context around it. In the letter the quote was taken from was defending himself from charges brought against him, and directly before and after that quote he was criticising the colonists who had come with that only wanted to take what they could get from the land and leave...I'll quote some....
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Literally forces them? probably No. Compels them by threats of expulsion from school, lower grades or stigmatisation - Probably Yes.
Each September the cotton harvest begins. Many rural schools are closed down by government officials as children, some as young as nine, are forced to pick cotton by hand for up to three months in order to fill the shortfall ...
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Here's a more authoritative source:
During the pre-Revolutionary years, Washington's views toward slavery were [as far as the record reveals] conventional, reflecting those of a typical Virginia planter of his time. He undoubtedly shared the "engrained sense of racial superiority" so common among white Virginians and did not emotionally identify with ...
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In the 1856 abolitionist speech before the House of Representatives Modern "democracy", the Ally of Slavery by Mason Weare Tappan it is stated that there are 347,525 slave holders in the United States, out of 6,222,318 white people in the 15 slave-holding states plus DC.
Specific numbers are given for each state and DC.
It is stated following the data ...
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I don't know if there is a verse in the Bible which states that slavery is good - or bad, for that matter.
However, there are many verses that treat slavery as a normal, and explain how slaves should be treated. It should be kept in mind that slaves were treated in different ways by different societies and at different times. For example, in may societies, ...
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Obama is probably descended from a black slave - but from his white mother.
From the Wikipedia article Family of Barack Obama:
News sources reported in July 2012 that according to Ancestry.com, through research in a combination of historical documents and yDNA analysis, John Punch, the first documented African slave in the American British colonies, has ...
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Trigger warnings: Detailed depiction of sexual assault, trafficking, and related.
It depends on what you mean by "well", and it depends on a wide different number of factors - Paid by whom, to whom? The actual yen range was so wide it's hard to depict an "average" without being insensitive to the trauma endured. It's like asking how well-paid the average ...
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The stated reason the name Jenkins was chosen is because:
... the choice for a new name is Jenkins, which we think evokes the same sort of English butler feel as Hudson.
No official recognition of a slave by the name Jenkins is made.
Any further claim that the true/hidden reason has to do with a slave would be a question of motivation, and therefore off-...
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No. Wang Mang, an Emperor of the Xin Dynasty, abolished slavery in the year 9CE. (It was reinstated, but that's not the question.)
(via Wikipedia referencing Hallet, Nicole. "China and Antislavery". Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition, Vol. 1, p. 154 – 156. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007. ISBN 0-313-33143-X.)
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In the bold portion above, the ACLU claims that "convict leasing" was done immediately after the civil war, was used to target and enslave black Americans, and was prevalent. Is this a fair assessment of the historical records?
First off, I'm not sure how to quantify "prevalent." Did it happen? Yes.
Here are some details for two states, ...
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TLDR: The Christian Bible never says slavery is good but it doesn't explicitly forbid it. The commandments concerning slavery define minimum working conditions for slaves which makes them very close to what we would call employees, at least for Hebrew males.
Biblical slavery is very different from slavery as it was known in the 19th century.
For example: ...
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Are these women in Libya
Probably not in Libya.
are they for sale in a market, and are they for sale as slaves?
Maybe.
The oldest version (June 26, 2018) I can find with reverse image search yields an ivory coast paper that claims women are sold by a network of Ivorians trafficked by women based in Abidjan and sold by Kuwaitis to Kuwaiti families with ...
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This is not unique to Uzbekistan, and was a standard practice all through USSR. Older age schoolchildren and all college students, every single autmn, were forced to go "Na kartoshku" (the best idiomatic translation I can think up is "Go potatoing"), which basically was mandatory yealy harvesting trips to the collective farms to help with whatever harvesting ...
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