In the case of Innocent he permitted trade with Barbary merchants in which foodstuffs would be given in exchange for slaves who could then be converted to Christianity.

King Ferdinand of Aragon gave Innocent 100 Moorish slaves who shared them out with favoured Cardinals.

In exchange for maintaining the custody of Cem, Bayezid paid Innocent VIII 120, 000 crowns ( at the time, equal to all other annual sources of papal revenue combined ), a relic of the Holy Lance ( which allegedly had pierced the side of Christ ), one-hundred Moorish slaves, and an annual fee of 45, 000 ducats.

In 1488 Pope Innocent VIII accepted the gift of 100 slaves from Ferdinand II of Aragon and distributed those slaves to his cardinals and the Roman nobility.

The slaves never shared in their profits, while they did share, in a very real sense, in the profits of the slave-owners: they were fed, clothed, doctored, and so forth ; ;

The suggestion that Giffen hire out the slaves was not realistic, since no planter would take the risk of having Negroes who knew they were to be free living with his own slaves.

William was adamant on one point: under no circumstances would he allow the Negroes to remain on the plantation with his and Henry's slaves if they were told of their coming freedom.

Of the fifty-two slaves, Giffen succeeded in getting a lot of twenty, twelve of whom were females.

the slaves were to remain as wage laborers for his account.

Not all of Palfrey's slaves were aboard the Bashaw.

When the Negroes landed at Boston a month later they were, of course, no longer slaves.

The nineteenth-century immigration, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, was not so much concerned, for very few if any among them held slaves: they were mostly in the Northern states where slavery had disappeared or was on the way out, or were too poverty-stricken to own slaves.

Tracing the blues from its African roots among the slaves who were brought to this country and the West Indies, he stressed the close relationship between the early jazz forms and the music of the Negro churches.

On August 6, 1861, Lincoln signed the Confiscation Act that authorized judiciary proceedings to confiscate and free slaves who were used to support the Confederate war effort.

Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all three million of them in Confederate territory were freed.

They were seeking black slaves for use in sugarcane plantations of Northeastern Brazil ( Pernambuco, Olinda, Recife ) which they had also seized from Portugal.

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's decision said that slaves were " so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect ".

In ancient Greece sculptors and painters were held in low regard, somewhere between freemen and slaves, their work regarded as mere manual labour.

In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.

While in Puerto Rico slavery was 2 % of the population and blacks were less than 11 %, Cuba was 30 % black and slaves wee the backbone of the plantation economy.

Most of the slaves liberated by Abu Bakr were either women or old and frail men.

Around 338 BC the orator Hyperides ( fragment 13 ) claimed that there were 150, 000 slaves in Attica, but this figure is probably not more than an impression: slaves outnumbered those of citizen stock but did not swamp them.

Proponents ( especially of majoritarianism ) deny these accusations, and argue that any faults in Athenian democracy were because the franchise was quite limited ( only male citizens could vote — women, slaves and non-citizens were excluded ).

The slaves ran gaily to the center of Congo Square and gathered around a sweaty youth they called Johnny No-Name.

The slender, handsome fellow was called Dandy Brandon by the other slaves.

The film Blade Runner ( 1982 ), adapted from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, is set in 2019 in a dystopian future in which manufactured beings called replicants are slaves used on space colonies and are legal prey on Earth to various bounty hunters who " retire " ( kill ) them.

The Ilois, now called Chagos Islanders or Chagossians since the late 1990s, were descended primarily from slaves brought to the island from Madagascar by the French between 1793 and 1810, and Malay slaves from the slave market on Pulo Nyas, an island off the northwest coast of Sumatra, from around 1820 until the slave trade ended following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

However the Jamaican slaves bound to their former owners ' service, albeit with a guarantee of rights, until 1838 under what was called the Apprenticeship System.

In response, Governor Monroe called out the militia ; the slave patrols soon captured some slaves accused of involvement.

Before and during the Civil War, the Ohio River was called the " River Jordan " by slaves crossing it to escape to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad.

The story of Passover, with its message that slaves can go free, and that the future can be better than the present, has inspired a number of religious sermons, prayers, and songs — including spirituals ( what used to be called " Negro Spirituals "), within the African-American community.

The slaves that were held on these vessels were released into Freetown and were called ' Captured negroes ', ' Recaptives ' or ' Liberated Africans '.

The caste structure was rigid ; in the Saxon language the three castes, excluding slaves, were called the edhilingui ( related to the term aetheling ), frilingi, and lazzi.

Some tribal sheiks in Iraq still keep blacks, called Abd, which means servant or slave in Arabic, as slaves.

Trafficking in human beings ( also called human trafficking ) is one method of obtaining slaves.

According to Hiram Araújo da Costa, over the centuries, the festival of dances of slaves in Bahia were called samba.

At what he called " The Big Cane Brake ," Eldret had Northup and other slaves do the heavy work of clearing cane, trees and undergrowth in order to develop cotton fields for cultivation.

After his election in 1800, some called him the " Negro President ", with critics like the Mercury and New-England Palladium of Boston stating that Jefferson had the gall to celebrate his election as a victory for democracy when he won " the temple of Liberty on the shoulders of slaves.

Others simply called their slaves indentured servants without legally changing their status.

William Still, often called " The Father of the Underground Railroad ", helped hundreds of slaves to escape ( as many as 60 a month ), sometimes hiding them in his Philadelphia home.

They plunder towns and capture slaves but later colonising large areas of what is called Gwynedd, in particular Llŷn, the coasts of Arllechwedd, Arfon and the Isle of Mona ( approximate date ).

However, a creature named Gith, who appears only as a disembodied cybernetic head, runs a hyper-corporation called Gith Industries whose " employees " are little more than slaves.

Frequently, the legs of the person executed were broken or shattered with an iron club, an act called crurifragium, which was also frequently applied without crucifixion to slaves.