Some people were enslaved as a punishment for crime or debt, others were sold into slavery by their parents, other relatives, or even spouses, sometimes to satisfy debts, sometimes to escape starvation.
A million more fled Ireland to escape starvation, many to America, including Falmouth Kearney, President Obama's great-great-great grandfather.
The image of 3-year-old Alan, whose lifeless body washed up on the Turkish shore in September, encapsulated the horrific human cost of Europe's refugee crisis -- and prompted calls for countries like Germany, France and England to open their borders to the men, women and children escaping starvation and civil war at home. .
The cells migrate toward the center of the principal spiral and form spores or slugs being able to escape the starvation thread much better than a single cell.
The boys skipping under the limp yellow string and ragged red flag that officially separates rebel-held South Sudan and Ethiopia escaped massacres, starvation and disease to seek shelter and safety across the border after a weeks-long walk that claimed many lives.
That changed some, especially between 2006 and 2008, when Eritreans escaping civil war and forced military service and Sudanese escaping the chaos, starvation, and violence of Darfur made their way across the Sinai desert.
Working a farm in China's fertile northeast, he escaped the mass starvation in the Great Leap Forward of the 1950s, then the violence that wreaked havoc and killed many more in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s.
In "Natural Born Killers" (column, March 22), Paul Krugman overlooks two important points when offering genetically modified foods as an "escape" from poverty and starvation in developing countries.
The North Korean migrants are trying to escape endemic poverty and starvation that has claimed approximately two million lives in the last six years, according to estimates by several international organizations, including the World Food Program.
For inmates caught trying to escape there were the starvation cells, where victims were basically left to die slowly with no food or water.
But a photojournalist who was held in the same cell with Curtis managed to escape, and he described starvation and other harsh treatment at the hands of the captors in an interview a year ago with the New York Times.
