2002 There are more slaves than ever before, but they are a smaller proportion of the human race No-one seriously defends slavery any more Slavery is illegal everywhere and so requires corruption ...

Arguing a case involving a slave revolt at sea early in his career, Benjamin echoed Shylock’s famous speech in Shakespeare’s ...

The scores of texts told recipients that “executive slaves” would arrive in a ... “We don’t cower down no more. We’re not intimidated no more. Those days are gone,” Ricky Hart ...

75 percent of white southerners did not own slaves. Of those who did, the vast majority owned no more than 20. The bulk of the enormous wealth produced by slave-grown cotton rested in the hands of ...