Forced Labor Quotes
Referring to the Arawak natives he found when he landed in the "new world—San Salvador:"
William the Conqueror. Note that it was OK to trade, buy and sell slaves and indentured servants as long as foreigners didn’t get the benefit of them.
As late as 2005 Saudi Arabia was officially listed by the State Department as trafficking in women for sexual exploitation and domestic servitude.
Stalin’s purges and suppression of potential rivals killed off mostly other communists exceeding the number of communists killed by brutal, murderous, anti-communist forces over the world.
Nott, a Southerner who owned slaves, was not only an apologist for slavery as this quotation illustrates, but also wrote on his theories of race. Nott was one of the writers about race that Darwin singled out as being completely wrong in 1871: The Descent of Man.
The slavery issue was the dominant issue in pre-Civil War America. It even drove foreign policy.
The human rights abuses in the Belgian Congo were horrible. Natives who refused to work for the low wages were murdered or had their hands chopped off. The indigenous population was markedly reduced. Word of the atrocities started leaking out to Europe. It is not known whether the King really wanted any reform or just sent the instructions to cover himself. The instructions were not followed; the atrocities continued, and Leopold never took any steps to discipline his agents and minions. The Belgian Congo had the worst atrocities in the world until WWII.
This quotation illustrates the level of delusion regarding the importance of slavery that the plantation and slave owners had induced in Southern Society.
