Movie
1979
Ashanti is a 1979 action adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Kabir Bedi, Beverly Johnson, Omar Sharif, Rex Harrison, and William Holden. It is based on the 1974 novel Ébano by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, with a screenplay written by Stephen Geller and an uncredited George MacDonald Fraser. The story is set against the background of modern-day slave trading, with Dr.…
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Slavery, at least when practised in its traditional form, is widely perceived to be something belonging to past centuries. Experiences from countries like Libya, where post-Gaddafi chaos returned open‑air slave markets, tell quite a different story. The phenomenon of modern‑day slavery nevertheless caught the attention of a small number of dedicated activists, as well as the Spanish writer Alberto Vázquez‑Figueroa,…More
