slaves

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Slaves, he wrote to his brother Brutus, “must soon be free!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

It’s safe to say that the Mauritanian French director Med Hondo’s “West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty” is a unique film.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024

“At times whole squadrons of corsairs were cruising off the coast of the United Kingdom,” says Bernard Capp, emeritus professor of history at The University of Warwick and author of British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs.

From National Geographic • Jan. 11, 2024

On May 17, 2013, Kanye started promo by dropping his single "New Slaves" through video projections in 66 locations worldwide.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2023

Slaves would run away into the forest in the Guianas, to “cockpit country”—the steep canyons of Jamaica—to the swamps in North America.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson