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  • Text: didn’t look like the lady you see on the box today. She was a slave woman, and a demonstrator was expected to act and talk like a slave woman, using a kind of broken patois. Jemima’s do-rag was replaced by a plaid headband. Eventually the headdress
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  • Text: had slaves, you didn’t have to pay them, because you owned them. They were your property just the same as a dining table or bed. As well as money, it gave the slave owners power. Two extremely addictive items. I always wonder why my skin color
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  • Text: of Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, proclaiming that all slaves in Texas were now free.Although the Emancipation Proclamation had formally freed them almost two and a half years earlier and the American Civil War had largely ended with the defeat
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  • Text: of us. We could remove statues from plinths and place them at our height, or lower. We could place other figures around them, of the slaves they traded or controlled; show the massacres, the conflicts, the long hidden stories. We could create virtual
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  • Text: 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 if it blew ahead of the ship in battle
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  • Text: 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 moved there and began
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  • Text: of 6 sacrificial dogs and the skeletons of 16 human slaves. This is a chariot with the skeletons of the horses still in harness. Our next stop was at the Longmen Caves. These caves house tens of thousands of statues of the Shakyamuni Buddha and his
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  • Text: , protesters are singing this song from Les Miserables. They have sung it in Hong Kong, Poland and most recently in Myanmar: Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating
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  • Text: piece he wanted. He sculpted his slaves series and the Pieta in St Peters from Carrara marble. There are a number of marble mines in the area and they all use huge heavy machinery now to extract the marble and ship it all over the world. It was a hot day
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  • Text: and Washington D.C.We also get the vast majority of the major shipping ports. So good luck with getting goods in or out of the country affordably. We also get Costco, Starbucks and Boeing. You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.We get stem cell research
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  • Text: . Next we visited Ochheuteal Beach. it was a lovely beach but very disconcerting with signs which said something like - children may be used as sex slaves here, please report to authorities. There were also signs warning about pickpockets. More
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  • Text: on an idea. “We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal.“ We never lived up to it. Jefferson himself didn’t. He held slaves. Women were excluded. Two suggestions = perhaps it would be a more honest document if it said; That all
Day 116 - the day after July 4th