slavery

One of the most fascinating political beliefs for the past several thousand years has been the notion of using the idea of protecting "Minority Rights" has an excuse, justification for Minority Rule and exploitation. The bedrock idea is that since the "Majority" just might deny the rights of...

I was absolutely fascinated by this article about the discovery (or re-discovery) of the last ship ever to bring slaves to the United States. As most of you probably know, while slavery was legal until the emancipation proclamation, importing new slaves was banned much earlier, in 1809. This...

I'm trying to find information about where the slaves in the United States originated from. Given the lack of information available online, it seems as if that question isn't much of an issue for some strange reason. Were the people captured by white "slave hunters", "legally bought" from...

HBO is working on a series based on the premise that the Confederacy won the Civil War. Approached from the other direction, assume that the U.S. had never instituted slavery. Suppose that the farm and other work performed by slaves was done by voluntary immigrants paid fair wages, who were...

Saudi women file petition to end male guardianship system "Guardianship". It's a euphemism for ownership and male supremacy. Of course, I knew about this before, but it still flabbergasts me every time I am reminded. It's slavery really. Pure chattel slavery and legally enforced too...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bill-oreilly-slaves-that-built-white-house-were-well-fed/ar-BBuX1eV?ocid=ansmsnnews11

Wrong section. Mods please move to Social issues...

It's well known that christians and jews argue that the slavery related in the bible/torah was practiced in a way to protect the slave. They say that the slaves were more like debt servants and treated with dignity by their masters. History professor at the London University, Catherine Hezser...

This is pretty shocking if true: Slavery Still Exists

So um whats up with that? The OT tells you how to buy slaves and were talking men, women and children. Even Jesus has no problem with slavery and prescribes how to be a good slave. So im thinking Christians should have no problem with it also? Even the NT has instructions on how to be a good...

South Pacific Slaves Put Seafood on U.S. Tables (Bloomberg)

Which produced a very interesting reaction in the local paper. Here's a snippet. But when I went on their web site, all I could find was some Black Robe Regiment and not much more. :wackyhuh:

For all of those of you who are so quick to so frequently condemn slavery in the Bible, are you as concerned about slavery today? Where is the outrage? I thought you say we people today are so much better now than those ancient barbarians? Are we really? "There are more slaves today than were...

Glenn Beck: Slavery "started with seemingly innocent ideas" then "The government.... began to regulate things" Bat. [Guano]. Insane. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201010010026 First minute: "Did health care go up, or did it go down" ... well check it in any year prior to now! It went up in...

Last night I watched a BBC documentary on ABC Australia's "Four Corners" program. It was about an issue I knew little about - the selling of very young children into slavery to harvest cocoa beans in Africa. http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2010/s2885745.htm The documentary reported...

Ok I guess slavery was worse. However before the advent of unorganized labor and labor laws a person could starve to death working for the wages offered by factory owners. Working twelve hours a day or more and six days a week. After the book "Uncle Toms Cabin" was published the southerners...

Yesterday Representative Steve King (R-IA) was the only member to vote against recognizing history of slave labor in the U.S. capitol. The House of Representatives voted 399-1 for the Capitol Visitors Center to have a plaque acknowledging the role of slave labor in the construction of the...

This is a what if question. What if slavery had been forbidden in the USA from the very beginning? Who could they have used instead of forced African slaves? Could they have hired someone to work the land and avoided the civil war altogether?

I asked a question about this video on yahoo answers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwgRLRZe14U&feature=channel_page SomeonE, Said something to the effect that "America has kicked racism out" or something like that. She also tied the confederate flag as a symbol of racism. SHe said she was...

So since - as we know from the McCain Campaign - it isn't about Obama's race anyway, let's actually start to talk about race and the McCain's:

From http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107084 We recently got badly offtrack and I'm more posting this because I'm curious. So, Jerome da Gnome: You think the primary cause is states rights. Can you explain how you got here?

Exodus 21:16 "He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death." Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond (slave) nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. The above passage...

Was there any actual evidence that there were slaves in Egypt? Any at all? P&T stated there was none, outside of the Bible, but is that really true? Seems kinda odd that the "slaves in Egypt" meme has passed for so long without being true at all. If there is no evidence, who else is...

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/01/america/NA-GEN-US-Slavery-Apology.php May be hard to find one. Full disclosure I'm from N.J. never owned a slave, nor did my parents, nor their parents.

I have seen the Bible criticized, and frequently, on this board because it does not denounce or outlaw slavery. Seems a fair criticism on the surface; but let's take a closer look. (Two notes before I begin: First, when I speak of "the Bible" here, I am referring to the Jewish Bible, called...

We've most of us been taught that, but it seems to me that this whole idea that "slavery is wrong" is a pretty recent development when considered against the scope of human history. And it isn't even universal- slavery still exists today, in all its forms. People have to participate in it...

Link A lot of Muslim countries in there. I'm sure the UN will be issuing condemnations any minute now.

:jaw-dropp The following article is in danish: http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Indland/2007/06/12/173650.htm?rss=true A summary: A Danish adoption agency, AC Børnehjælp, have been paying/bribing for children from India to be adopted by Danes, going against every convention and rule in the area...

Resolution Passes Unanimously I, for one, happen to think this is a Good Thing. I've saved you the searching - the full text of the resolution can be found right around here. It is quite inclusive and unambiguous. It makes me happy. :)

Yes, according to an audio tape of Dr. James Kennedy of Ft. Lauderdale Florida, Thomas Jefferson was a Bible Scholar who read the Bible daily. Jefferson read the Bible in English, Greek, Latin, and French. Jefferson also contributed his own money to 10 different churches in the 8 years he was...