In the old days in the Old South, rich plantation owners had teams of slaves to do the work for them. It turns out that ants are farmers too AND they also have slaves! And just like people who purchased strong humans, slavemaker ants select the strong over the weak when seeking new servants, which is why they have been observed attacking larger, better defended colonies over smaller, weaker ones.read more
The Master of the Key said that in order to fulfill our desire for cheap consumer goods, we in the West each have 5 slaves. Most Americans would be surprised to realize that in the UK, farm and fast food workers from Mexico are considered to be slaves of a sort.
In the December 19 edition of the Independent, Leondard Doyle writes about the “Slave Labor that Shames America.” He says, “Conditions in [Florida’s] fruit-picking industry range from straightforward exploitation to forced labor.” He could also be speaking about California.
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Dominic Casciani writes in bbcnews.com that a rare photo has been discovered depicting slaves on the deck of a ship being transported to European colonies in the Americas that still allowed slavery at that time. The photo was taken by a Royal Navy officer and amateur photographer in 1869, after his patrol ship intercepted a slave ship headed from west Africa to the Americas. This picture is one of only a few photos of slave ships known to exist anywhere in the world.
We still have to fight for freedom.
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