| In 1871 Scottish missionary David Livingstone saw hundreds of African women shot while trying to escape slavers. |
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| The slavers were bad enough without being angered by other unlicensed traders stealing their market. |
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| The first Europeans to visit the area were Portuguese navigators and British slavers. |
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| These unpopulated regions had been a haven for pirates, slavers, and other scoundrels for centuries. |
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| The winner took away with him as many of the losing tribe as he could manage, and those he could not use were sold to slavers. |
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| They could, however, act as bolt holes when gangs of slavers raided, a growing menace from the ninth century on. |
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| If you get blood on my bed, I will make you wish you were still with the slavers. |
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| Britain had outlawed the slave trade in 1808, and her colonies were not allowed to render assistance to slavers. |
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| I smile at him, cocking my head to one side, listening to the bickering of the worthless slavers. |
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| All the western slavers had to do was turn up in port and have the slaves brought to them. |
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| When slavers came to harvest humans for sale, these African societies were utterly defenseless. |
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| The fact that the Boers were slavers, and utterly despised the blacks, was of little consequence to Britain's critics. |
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| The sword wielding African slavers that the Europeans dealt with usually kept the women and children to add to their own tribe numbers. |
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| There are laws that could send the slavers to jail for years but they are never used. |
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| The slave trade within Africa involved very high costs for guarding slaves, transporting them, and feeding them until the slavers from Europe turned up at the port. |
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| Anthony Johnson was captured in his native Angola by an enemy tribe and sold to European slavers. |
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| Like the Vikings, the Moros were seagoing traders, slavers and raiders. |
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| Did the museum fear outraged slavers descending on it with kurbashes? |
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| In Traffic, the so-called white slavers use a telegraphic pen to communicate. |
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| This area of tropical rain forest in north-western Borneo, lying along the mangrove coast of the South China Sea, was infested with pirates, slavers and head-hunters. |
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| It doesn't matter who were the slaves and who were the slavers. |
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| The Vikings are the archetypal slavers in European history, enslaving victims in eastern Europe and the Mediterranean area, and selling them in markets far away. |
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| Introduced primarily by the Portuguese, corn became a major crop in the African slave shipping areas and their hinterlands to meet the provisioning needs of the slavers. |
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| The descendants of Africans captured by slavers and taken to servitude in America are on average better off than the descendants of their neighbours who evaded capture. |
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| Inter-ethnic relations in Africa will for long continue to be affected by perceptions as to who collaborated with the slavers and who suffered most. |
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| Some slavers which were altered in this way were sent for re-assay, and a Victorian hallmark will be found on the border and any feet which may have been added. |
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| Thus did the Chickasaw and other natives embrace chattel slavery and become allies of the white slavers and enemies of enslaved Africans. |
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| Eventually, reinforcements gathered by Father Cataldino drove off the slavers. |
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| King Jaja of Opobo, a former slave, refused to do business with the slavers completely. |
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| If you had threatened to sell their first-born to white slavers there would have been less fuss. |
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| According to Kimani Nehusi, the presence of European slavers affected the way in which the legal code in African societies responded to offenders. |
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| The last of the slavery states, it was a launching pad for numerous raids into Kansas by slaveowner militias hired to turn the vote in that state in favor of the slavers. |
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