North America
- United States House of Representatives Apologizes for
the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans, July 29,
2008. Text: HRes 194
- May, 2007 - Maryland became the second state (after Virginia) to formally apologize for slavery:
"WHEREAS, Slavery fostered a climate of oppression not only for slaves and
their descendants but also for people of color who moved to Maryland subsequent
to slavery's abolition; and
"WHEREAS, Slavery and discrimination are utterly contrary to the principles
that this Nation and this State profess ... "
"Resolved, That the State of Maryland commits itself to the formation of a
more perfect union among its citizens regardless of color, creed, or race; and
"Resolved, That the State of Maryland recommits itself to the principle that
all people are equal and equally endowed with inalienable rights to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
- We support the work of the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children
- Vast Trade in Forced Labor Portrayed
in C.I.A. Report - The New York Times,
April 1, 2000. A 79-page
C.I.A. report -- "International Trafficking in Women to the
United States: A Contemporary Manifestation of Slavery" --
reveals that as many as 50,000 women and children from Asia, Latin
America and Eastern Europe are brought to the United States under false
pretenses each year and forced to work as prostitutes, abused laborers
or servants.
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Africa
- African
Slavery 1996 - May, 1996.
- Anti-Slavery
Article - published by The City Sun,
2/1/95.
- Bought
and Sold (Africa) - The New York Times,
July 13, 1994.
- Out of Bondage by Marcus Mabry, Newsweek
International, May 3, 1999.
- Redeeming
Slaves in the Sudan - November 15, 1996.
- Selling Sudan Slaves Into Freedom -
The New York Times, April 25, 1999. In one
week an official with a Swiss group called Christian Solidarity
International, bought freedom for 1,783 slaves in Sudan.
- Sudan
- Oggi continua lo sterminio - PeaceLink, 1997.
- "Sudan: Where Children Live in Bondage." Sun
reporters Gregory Kane and Gilbert Lewthwaite traveled to the Sudan to
report this horrifying account of men, women, and especially children
who are sold in to slavery every day. May be ordered from The (Baltimore)
Sun .
- U.S. Must Wake up to Nightmare in Sudan
by Gregory Kane - The (Baltimore) Sun, September
24, 2000. About the anti-slavery efforts of radio man Joe Madison.
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Europe
- Britain's Secret Slaves - London 1996.
- The Hague International Criminal Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia Judgement of Trial Chamber II in the Kunarac,
Kovac and Vukovic Case JL/P.I.S./566-e, 22 February, 2001.
This decision marks the first convictions by the ICTY of enslavement as
a crime against humanity;
and the first convictions of rape as a crime against humanity.
- The
Last Days of a Laundry (The Magdalen Laundries, Ireland) - The
Irish Times, September 25, 1996.
- Reflect
Here Upon Their Lives (The Magdalen Laundries, Ireland), by
Meadjh Gallagher - An Phoblacht/Republican News,
April 25, 1996.
- Where
Were the Men When Women Were Incarcerated? (The Magdalen
Laundries, Ireland), by Bernadette Fahy - The
Irish Times, March 30, 1998.
- State
Involvement in Mistreatment of Children Exposed (The Magdalen
Laundries, Ireland), by Padraig O'Morain - The Irish Times,
May 1, 1999.
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Asia
- The Chained Bonded Labourers of
Karnataka - July 24, 2000, pamphlet by Nanjappa
Bhovi, Bangalore, India.
Bonded labourers are still found in various localities in India.
- Labor Violations In [American] Saipan
- March 27, 1998.
- Is This the USA? - Transcript
20/20 Broadcast, March 13, 1998.
- Appeal to End Child and Adult Slavery in
Pakistan - January, 1996.
- Child Labor in Pakistan - The
Atlantic Monthly, February, 1996.
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World
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In History
Gypsy Slave Auction Advertisement,
Wallachia, Romania (1852)
-
Claire
King, "Invisible No More," Teaching Tolerance,
Fall 1999, p. 37.
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Anti-Slavery
Organizations
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