slaves

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A bank official said that the bank’s reasoning was that the debt owed ensured that the customers were slaves to the bank in perpetuity.

From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026

American livestreamer Johnny Somali, who caused outrage in South Korea by kissing a statue representing World War Two sex slaves, has been sentenced to six months in jail.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

Meanwhile, Brazil’s planters mobilized more than one million slaves to settle frontier lands west of Rio de Janeiro, almost entirely to satisfy the North American demand for coffee.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Barrett responded: OK, but many slaves were brought here illegally, and everyone acknowledges that the point of the 14th Amendment first and foremost was to grant citizenship to them and their children.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

The law applied only to slaves over age twenty-eight, so Ona was exempt.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis