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Buddhism, Tibet, and slavery

Posted in seeker, tagged , , , on October 4, 2007 | 36 Comments »

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Burma, Oaxaca, Tibet, and a better life under communism?

Posted in seeker, tagged , , , , on October 3, 2007 | 11 Comments »

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a letter about ancient slavery

Posted in seeker, tagged on October 3, 2005 | 2 Comments »

Bill Colsher wrote,
There’s a lot of pretty recent scholarship on ancient slavery. If you get over-excited the BMCR is probably a good place to start.As to transport:
The main transshipment point for slaves from the eastern side of the Roman world was originally the same one the Greeks used: Rhodes. About 168 BCE, Rome declared Delos [...]

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race, slavery, and wealth in the USA

Posted in seeker, tagged , , , on September 10, 2005 | 3 Comments »

I was thinking about what a complex history New Orleans had, so I did some googling, and as often happens, found more than I was looking for:
Black Slave Owners & Free Slaves
Robert E. Lee on Black Troops and the Confederacy
the will of Betsey Sompayrac, a free woman of color and a slave owner

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