History of slavery, and in particular, the experiences of enslaved women. We already had a chance to look at the case of Harriet Jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. There, jacobs introduced us, if you will, to that dimension of slavery that is exemplified, and we might say central to the experience of slave women, and that is sexual violence. We will come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today, that of celia. We also looked at the wpa narratives, and one of the things we noticed about those narratives was the extent to which some issues, including sexual violence, violence generally, and sexual violence, in particular, was rather muted in the slave narratives. And so here we have an with this case to take another pass at this question, to try to see this dimension of slavery through the experience of celia. So, why do i say try to see this dimension of slavery . As you have all begun to see in your readings for today, there are ma
China has Just Announced sanctions against the United States which target some of beijings most vocal critics this comes one week after the u. S. Sanctioned several chinese officials over reports that they are targeting some ethnic minorities arties racial blevins is joining us now to break down the latest developments here so rachel what explanation did beijing give for the sanctions well a spokesperson for Chinas Foreign Ministry spoke out and she said that these sanctions are specifically in retaliation to the same sions that were imposed by the u. S. Last week and which they accuse several chinese officials of human rights abuses against ethnic and religious minorities now china has denied these accusations repeatedly and it also accuse the United States of trying to meddle in its internal affairs take a listen. The vicious harassment interrogation and threats by the United States seriously damaged the legitimate rights and interests of chinese citizens in the us and also interrupt
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And forced from their homes. Thousands in haitis capital escaped Gang Violence thats hit the country since the president s assassination. Im doing a guys real sca with the school. Its a huge games found to kick off in sidney co, hostile, straight here, take home england in the semi finals of the wind as well. Come, will be life to sidney for the battery like the so its just past 10 gmc, and we start with breaking news from these year where at least 17 soldiers have been killed in an ambush. The military leadership says its troops were attacked by an armed group near the Tilbury Border region. It also said its forces killed. Several of the fighters addresses in the nigerian town of can seen that thats near the border with this year. Im a, what can you tell us about this attack to the attack happened during the border with molly and its coming days off to another one on the boat. It was broken, a fossil happened in which an specified number of troops i killed some suggest that as many as
this is bbc news. the headlines: the evacuations continue as the country holds a fragile three day ceasefire 300 british nationals are flown out of sudan and some have arrived in the uk in the last hour. in russia, the jailed opposition activist, alexei navalny, is now charged with terrorism offenses. and the singer, ed sheeran, is in court in new york to defend himself against charges he plagiarised marvin gaye. will have sport and just a moment or two, but i want to break a really important line linked to sudan because the home secretary so ella bradman has been talking in the last little while and said, the government has no plans to introduce death to a lab rather men, says the government have no plans to introduce suella braverman said the government will look at safe routes for refugees from two down, the government says we have no plans to do that. our focus first and for most right now, and bearing in mind this is a fast moving and complex situation, is to suppor