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The Food Revolution: Is There Slavery In Your Chocolate? - A look at slavery in the coffee and chocolate industries and how slavery has changed over the years. Includes suggestions for fighting against slavery.
William Wilberforce House Anti-Slavery Society - Organization working for the suppression of child labor and slavery. Consumer guides, newsroom, kids' section, and profiles of current issues.
Anti-Slavery International - Promotes the eradication of slavery and slavery-like practices, and freedom for everyone who is subjected to them.
Slavery In the Western Hemisphere - Multimedia textbook by students at Coral Gables High School covering slavery in British America and the United States.
Classics on American Slavery - Collection of scholarly books and articles on American slavery, published before 1923.
Scientific American: The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery - Contrary to conventional wisdom, slavery has not disappeared from the world. Social scientists are trying to explain its persistence Article by Kevin Bales.
Anti-Slavery International - Advocates for the eradication of slavery and other forms of forced labor and slavery-like practices around the world.
Abolish Slavery - Soon - Campaign to help raise awareness about modern slavery and to highlight organizations working against it.
Save A Slave - Information and education exchange on the plight of modern slavery, child slavery and prostitition around the world, particularly in Sudan, Mauritania, Sudan, China, India and Thailand.
Free the Slaves - Abolish Modern Slavery - The Center of the Modern American Abolishionist Movement inspired by Kevin Bales' book, Disposable People, works to abolish slavery worldwide.

Wikipedia Articles

Sexual slavery - Sexual slavery is the organized coercion of unwilling people into different sexual practices. Sexual slavery may include single-owner sexual slavery, ritual slavery sometimes associated with traditional religious practices, slavery for primarily non-sexual purposes where sex is common, or forced prostitution.
United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery - The full title of this treaty is: The United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery. A 1926 Slavery Convention proposed to secure the abolition of slavery and of the slave trade.
Slavery (Ottoman Empire) - Slavery was an important part of Ottoman societySupply of Slaves until the Ottoman Empire forbade the slavery of Caucasians (including Georgians, Armenians, and Circassians) in the early 19th century.Ottomans against Italians and Portuguese about (white slavery), slavery did still exist.
Act Against Slavery - The Act Against Slavery was an Act passed by Upper Canada on July 9, 1793 to prohibit slavery. The Act remained in force until 1833 when the British Parliament's Slavery Abolition Act abolished slavery in all parts of the British Empire.
Slavery at common law - Slavery at common law refers to the legal status of slavery and the slave trade under the system of law used in England and adopted by its former colonies. Some groups assert slavery was not recognised as lawful,Anti-slavery society often on the basis of pronouncements such as those attributed to Lord Mansfield, that "the air of ...

Related Books and Items

From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin, ISBN 0375406719 : This is the dramatic, exciting, authoritative story of the experiences of African Americans from the time they left Africa to their continued struggle for equality at the end of the twentieth century. Since its original publication in 1947, From Slavery to Freedom has stood as the definitive his-tory of African Americans. Coauthors John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., give us a vividly detailed account of the journey of African Americans from their origins in the civilizations of Africa, throug...
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington, ISBN 0451527542 : A MAN WHO OVERCAME THE BONDS OF SLAVERY TO BECOME A SPOKESMAN FOR HIS PEOPLE. Historically acknowledged as one of America's most powerful and persuasive orators, Booker T. Washington consistently challenged the forces of racial prejudice at a time when such behavior from a black man was unheard of. While he mollified white leaders by publicly agreeing with their racist views of social parity, he also worked tirelessly to convince blacks to work together as one people in order to improve their lives and ...
Uncle Tom's Cabin : An earnest attempt to depict the harsh realities of slavery while lamenting the passage of the idealized South, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is an extravagant historical drama and, at a cost of $1.8 million, was one of the most expensive films of the silent era. Since it publication in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel had found enormous success (reportedly second in sales only to the Bible), with epic stage productions appearing that same year, barnstorming across America almost continuously for ...
Biography: Frederick Douglass : As a young man, he experienced the brutality of slavery firsthand. As an outspoken leader of the abolitionist movement, he became one of the most powerful voices in American history. "Frederick Douglass" inadvertently found his calling while giving an impromptu speech at an antislavery meeting in 1841. As a former slave, he quickly became not only a persuasive speaker, but also a poignant symbol of freedom. His insightful and eloquent lectures and his tireless efforts to educate the public about the rea...