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- Text: ...Netherlands • Their were minorities from Dutch colonies on the ship and John felt they were all treated very badly, like slaves • They had two meals a day, were lucky enough to have nice weather, but had a long trip because of the zigzag course they had to take (26:15) New Guinea ...
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- Text: ...They visited the dilapidated Bois Cotlette estate which used to be a sugar plantation with slave workers. Over time, the market fell out of sugar in Dominica and the estate was left deserted. I’m not sure if the New Yorker bought the estate or contracted to run it but he and his family mo...
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- Text: ...vel, the flagship of the Spanish King, Phillip II, used at the Battle of Letanto in 1571. Inside there are benches where the slaves sat who rowed the ship when there was no wind to fill the sails. Apparently the smell from the chained slaves was horrendous when the wind changed and...
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- Text: ... they had frostbite in both feet • They traveled through Belgium and then back into North Germany • They found some slave labor camps in North Germany that were mostly filled with Russians • Lavont was in charge of about 50 Russians from the old camp, making sure they received ...
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- Text: ...cademic lectures, students will experience the Cape of Good Hope, Boulders National Park, the District Six Museum, the lziko Slave Museum, Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, and an overnight stay at a private game reserve. Students may also tour Soweto and visit the Aparthei...
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- Text: ...and along the Nepal-India border to help women and girls in prostitution, including those that have been forced into the sex slave trade . Bobbi was a leader in the Second Wave of the Women's Movement; she is featured in the book Feminists Who Changed America. She brings with her the u...
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- Text: More than 21, 000 Japanese were killed on Iwo. A few surrendered along with the Korean slave-laborers. During the battle, official signs had been posted "We need a few of the enemy to interrogate." The general response was, "OK, But do you mind if they're dead?"
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- Text: ...Rhem Page 2 who in the meantime took things into their own hands so that Sarah's slave girl, Hagar, bore Abraham a son, whom he loved. And Sarah, being so human, forced the slave girl and her son out of the tent. The tragic story of Ishmael, the firstborn, Abraham'...
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- Text: ...d Bus:iness Meeting & Program Speaker: Mrs . Ralph Hawk:ins on "Social Security" 7 - Sunday Temple Youth Group Slave Day-Call Temple 10;00 - 12:00 (See Flyer on Slave Day) 10 - hednesday Hadassah Card Party at Gas Company 10 - v-Jednesday B 1 nai Lrith Houston House S...
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- Description: ...After the war he stayed with crew of LST 720 and sailed around China, Korea, and Japan helping transport liberated Chinese slave laborers and Japanese soldiers back to their home countries. In spring 1946 they sailed for the U.S. and arrived in Bremerton, Washington in May 1946. The ship wa...
- Text: ...t it would take the men longer to get discharged and get home -Stayed in the western Pacific for six months -Brought Chinese slave laborers from Japan back to China -Brought Japanese soldiers and their families from China back to Japan -Took supplies to Korea -Got along well with the Japa...
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- Text: ...ving recovered, he was befriended by the family of a clergyman, Morly Urwin, and when Urwin died, John Newton, the converted slave trader become Anglican pastor and author of "Amazing Grace," invited Cowper to come to Olney, England, Newton's parish. For the last two decades ...
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- Description: ...He was with the division as it advanced through Germany and witnessed the liberation of multiple slave labor camps. After Germany's surrender in May 1945, he was part of the Army of Occupation and served in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. He left Germany in summer 1946 and was discharged at F...
- Text: ... but robberies and rapes started to happen -Had to gather them back up and place them in the camp until rear troops arrived -Slave labor from Yugoslavia, Russia, Poland, and France (00:36:29) Occupation Duty Pt. 1 -After Germany surrendered in May 1945, he became part of the Army of Occup...
