Tag: slaves
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March 23, 2009 01:52 PM EDT --
Last night I could not sleep, so I ended up watching the series about sex slaves in America on MSNBC. I was already paranoid when it comes to the safety of my children, but this series can really make . . .
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May 19, 2008 10:33 AM EDT --
For many years, and especially in the 1600's, the Irish were the main source of slaves sent from England to America and the West Indies. Did you know that?
I am Irish by heritage, and until recently, . . .
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August 18, 2009 12:00 PM EDT --
Some of you may remember reviewing this article for me, but I've not posted it in its entirety on here before. It is so long, that I'm only going to share the beginning, and invite you to go to Irish . . .
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August 27, 2007 03:08 PM EDT --
with smiles of insincerity
vapid eyes
and palpable disinterest
you invade my workspace
where i am invisibly chained
and hopelessly bound
i offer you my blinding smile of facitiousness
and imagine . . .
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December 06, 2007 02:05 AM EST --
This will be a short take on teenagers using the magic of logic.
Now, I've touched base on Emo's many many times before, but just a quick refresher:
Among other things, emos believe that . . .
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July 04, 2008 01:16 AM EDT --
Life Under the Radar
I wrote yesterday about the protests and conflict happening in Irving, Texas. It concerns me deeply. The sides are no closer to resolution and tempers are flaring. The . . .
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January 01, 2010 10:18 PM EST --
The Ghost Adventures crew returned tonight after a few weeks of hiatus to Prospect Place, a home built by abolitionist George Adams and one stop in the underground railroad. The pre-history of the location . . .
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December 05, 2007 03:48 PM EST --
Letter to the Rev. Samson Occom
Phillis Wheatley was a former slave in Boston , she was the first African American to have a book of poetry published. She wrote a letter to . . .
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September 16, 2006 07:21 PM EDT --
"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."
- John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson of Glenwilliam (1844–1931)
This lesson should be taught to everyone. While many people today give . . .
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March 29, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
A controversial but valid view of eighteenth century slavery.
Last week saw the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British Slave Trade and with it came a rush of politicians anxious to . . .
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June 29, 2007 12:06 PM EDT --
Latvian Girls Urged To Say 'No' To Sex Tourists
Jim Davis
27 June 2007,
<Published with the permission of the author>
Perhaps Latvia has the right idea and a number of other former Soviet . . .
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October 17, 2009 04:17 AM EDT --
**Warning**Watch only of you want to learn more about Afrikan slave trade.
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October 31, 2006 01:07 PM EST --
Black Brazil seeks a better future
By Robert Plummer
BBC News, Sao Paulo
A university named after a 17th-Century rebel slave leader in Brazil is at the forefront of a controversy over the country's . . .
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August 13, 2009 08:14 PM EDT --
I'm a little late with this final photo essay showing the slave quarters and a few other sights I haven't shared yet from Boone Hall Plantation. I have posted links to the other photo essays at . . .
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January 12, 2009 12:49 AM EST --
It has been in my thoughts a lot.
That people are sold and treated as slave in this day and age is horrendous.
Even more horrendous is the fact that many of them are very young children who are . . .
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September 20, 2007 01:10 PM EDT --
We arrived in San Antonio Thursday afternoon and fled directly to the River Walk in search of margaritas, chips and salsa. First, we surrounded the Alamo until we found the list of those who died for those . . .
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January 14, 2009 05:17 AM EST --
After all the borrowed "trillions" George W. Bush gave away of other's people's money, OBAMA-RITES and family, whole family I guess needs move in and cleanse the White . . .
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November 07, 2006 02:09 AM EST --
THE ENSLAVED IN THE LAND OF THE FREE
Imagine you are locked in your own private prison. You do not speak the same language as your subjugator. On the rare occasion you are escorted off of the . . .
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January 15, 2007 10:49 PM EST --
...Any debt white Americans may have owed to black Americans has been paid. A black person entering college or the job market today is in a very different situation than their grandparents were. . . .
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February 21, 2007 09:43 AM EST --
You could easily observe that I am as comfortable with my point of view as any “You” in my world, and so who am I to advocate openmindedness (with the full audacity of suggesting it start with . . .
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