slavery

The Ghost of Slavery Movie Review

I wrote this on October 19,1998 when I was in highschool, as a responce to movie review I had read. -------- This is a movie review. I wouldn't mind watching this movie. It sounds very interesting...

Wealthy Couple Charged With Slavery

A millionaire couple has been charged with keeping two Indonesian women as slaves in Long Island New York. They were subjected to forced labor and were abused for their misdeeds. They were beaten...

How Can People Be So Mean? What Would Make A Couple Do This?

I just read this story and for the life of me, I can't understand how 2 people could be so mean. They had the money to pay these ladies, but decided to enslave them anyway. Please read the...

Should Virginia Apologize for Slavery??

I would like some honest answers on this topic, because people hardly say what they mean. I am concerned that this topic may not be fully explored, if someone doesn't start a discussion. Tell me...

Quotation by Booker T. Washington, from his book "Up from Slavery"

Booker T. Washington was the dominant figure in the African American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915. I see him as a man ahead of his times. I get the feeling that he took pride in...

Indentured Slave Labor in India

Overnight I was listening to BBC Radio and I heard a report that there are millions of "bonded, indentured slave laborers" in India and the government does nothing about it. Most of these "slave...

What role do you play in your life??

I have met many people who have lived their entire life in the shadow of another person, sacrificing himself/herself... How much importance do you give yourself; are you number one in your own...

A reason to celebrate?

I have just seen on the tv that it is 200 years to the day since an act of Parliament made the trafficking of slaves to Britain or any of it's colonies illegal! This was not an end of slavery but was...

A Strange question to all MyLot'rs...If Animal Could Talk, what would we(you)do?

Ok..Ok.. People of both genes...Tell me,Answer me one thing..... If Animal's could talk or comunicate with us, what would you or we do.....?????Would we become vegetarian??? If they could...