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 ...

No such test is possible ... This probably is the reason why some cultures chose to tolerate slavery while trying to eradicate many of the more cruel practices - but it is not a justification ...

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

Nay, more; men who kill their wives or treat ... In a well constituted slave society, there should be no idlers. But we cannot divine how the capitalists in free society are to put to work.

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 ...

is believed to have seized approximately 1,600 ships involved in the slave trade and freed 150,000 Africans who were aboard. Mr Kemp said more than 1,200 individual donors had given between £1 ...