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    which was named La Prairie de la Magdelaine but was also called François-Xavier-des-Prés. The land was given to the Jesuits by Jacques de La Ferté and the...
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    1849–1854 La route de la Montagne (Mountain road) was built; the first reliable road connection to Saint-Denis. In 1860 the lazaret of La Grande Chaloupe...
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    Juan de la Cosa died in 1510 along with 300 of Alonso de Ojeda's men, after an armed confrontation with indigenous people, and before Juan de la Cosa...
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    sentenced all men and women older than 12 to twenty years of forced "personal servitude". In addition, men older than 25 (24 individuals) were to have a foot...
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  • Seydou are put to work building a new fence and a fountain. Despite their servitude, they are treated relatively well and are able to bond on a personal level...
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    these was the author Miguel de Cervantes, who was held for almost five years. Others were sold into various types of servitude. Attractive women or boys...
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    recorded mention of Solitude comes from Auguste Lacour in his book Historie de la Guadeloupe, an exploration of the administrative archives on the 1802 rebellion...
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    Deuteronomy guaranteed freedom to a Hebrew after a fixed duration of servitude), but none abolished slavery, and even what protections were instituted...
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    Corrientes, in modern-day Argentina, he left the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata at the early age of seven to study in Málaga, Spain. In 1808, after...
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  • family; and old Corsican Family, related to Mozer de Mattéï; left for France, preferring exile over servitude of the Genovese. His Grand-Father and Father...
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    XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by the Senate...
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    United States of America: Pelican Publishing. p. 88. "Atlantic Indentured Servitude". Oxford Bibliographies. Retrieved November 4, 2022. Mauro, Frédéric (1986)...
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    Crémieux). Preface of Destin de Le Brix by José le Boucher, Nouvelle Librairie Française, 1932. Preface of Grandeur et servitude de l'aviation by Maurice Bourdet...
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    The Château de Challain-la-Potherie is a castle located in the French commune of Challain-la-Potherie, in Maine-et-Loire. Constructed between 1847 and...
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    surrender. De Valera was court-martialled, convicted, and sentenced to death, but the sentence was immediately commuted to penal servitude for life. De Valera...
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    city. Traditional rights of way take the form of servitude de passage (right of passage) and droit de marche-pied (right to walk, along canals and canalised...
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    Democratic Republic of the Congo (category Member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie)
    Paragraphe 7: De la mutilation sexuelle; Article 174g; Sera puni d'une peine de servitude pénale de deux à cinq ans et d'une amende de deux cent mille...
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    those sympathetic to the Soviet model and their "decision to call total servitude freedom". A proponent of libertarian socialism, he stated that the Soviet...
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    Engagé (category Indentured servitude in the Americas)
    The engagé system of indentured servitude existed in New France, the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the French West Indies from the 18th and 19th centuries...
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    Celts (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Greece and Rome. Slaves were acquired from war, raids, and penal and debt servitude. Slavery was hereditary, though manumission was possible. The Old Irish...
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    ironworking (mines, forges, trade), so much so that part of the route was called "la route du fer" (el cami del ferro). At this time, according to Jean Ribes...
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    having enacted freedom at birth a decade earlier. To be sure, indentured servitude represented for the formerly enslaved an improvement over slavery itself;...
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    engaged in the slave trade with native chiefs there. A form of indentured servitude was allowed, being similar to a peasant's duty to his liege lord in Europe...
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    war were the most common sources of African slaves, although indentured servitude or punishment also resulted in slavery. The many alternative methods of...
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    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française, 2001, vol. III, p. 946. Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language. 1989. p. 1304. Servitude: Law...
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    living conditions brought about by enslavement (and harsh forced labor and servitude) to outright sadistic punishments, and even murder, of anyone who challenged...
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    Such forms of indentured servitude existed up until the Edict for the suppression of the right of mortmain and of servitude in the domains of the King...
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    the Caribbean as an indentured servant during the 1650s. By 1660 his servitude was complete. He began to wander various islands before arriving in Saint-Domingue...
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    at least less poor) households. Increasingly, children enter domestic servitude when a parent dies. Paid middlemen may act as recruiters, fetching the...
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    Cagot (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    century Jean-Baptiste Colbert officially freed Cagots in France from their servitude to parish churches and from restrictions placed upon them, though in practicality...
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