A brief history of the "peculiar institution: slavery"
Anti-slavery groups, books, & articles

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Organizations which combat slavery and near-slavery:
 | International anti-slavery organizations:
 | Anti-Slavery International was founded in 1839 and "is
the world's oldest international human rights organisation and the
only charity in the United Kingdom to work exclusively against slavery
and related abuses. [They]... work at local, national and
international levels to eliminate the system of slavery around the
world." See:
http://www.antislavery.org/ |
 | Comité contre
l'Esclavage Moderne (Committee Against Modern Slavery; CCEM)
is a French organization which opposes slavery worldwide. |
 | Free the Slaves is an American-based
"non-profit organization working to end slavery worldwide."
See:
http://www.freetheslaves.net/ |
 | SaveASlave.com is an educational group which
attempts to inform people about the issues surrounding slavery. See:
http://www.saveaslave.com/
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 | National anti-slavery organizations:
 | Bal Vikas Ashram "is a transit home for freed children
located in the Allahabad region of India." They have helped over
156 children. See:
http://www.freetheslaves.net/ and
http://www.satyamag.com/ |
 | Christian Solidarity International is fighting
slavery in Sudan. Their Anti-Slavery Campaign has freed "thousands
of slaves, mainly women and children." They estimate that there
are at least 100,000 black African Animist and Christian slaves in
northern Sudan. See:
http://www.csi-int.ch/ |
 | International Needs Ghana promotes human rights and
community development in Ghana. Their Trokosi Modernization Project
seeks to emancipate and rehabilitate the approximately 5,000 girls and
women who have been enslaved in some parts of the Volta and Greater
Accra Regions of Ghana. Young girls are treated as slaves in religious
shrines as reparation for misdeeds by their family members. See:
http://www.africaexpress.com/ |
 | Sankalp works with the "Kol people in the Uttar
Pradesh state of Northern India to escape debt bondage in stone
quarries."
http://www.freetheslaves.net/ and
http://www.miningindia.com/ |
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Internet articles for further study:
 | "Slavery, Abolition and Reconstruction," a list of hyperlinks by the
Mining Company at:
http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/hf_race.html |
 | "Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation" is
an occasional academic publication "featuring essays, documents, images,
bibliographies and database information relevant to the history of slavery, abolition, and
emancipation." Distribution is primarily by the Internet. |
 | Steven Mintz, "Slavery and Antislavery: A bibliography of recent works in
English," at: http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/bib1.htm
and http://vi.uh.edu/pages/ |
 |
Eddie Becker, "Chronology on the history of slavery,"
at:
http://innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html |

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Additional books on slavery for further study:
 | L. Bennett, Jr., "Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America/25th
Anniversary Edition, 1619-1964," Johnson (1088). You can buy
this book safely and online from Amazon.com |
 | Booker T Washington, "Up from Slavery," Dover, (1995). Buy this book |
 | D. Sterling, "We are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century."
W.W. Norton, (1997). Read reviews
or buy this book |
 | Ira Berlin et. al., Eds., "Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About
their Personal Experiences of slavery and Freedom," W.W. Norton, (1998). Derived
from interviews with former slaves, conducted by the Federal Writers Project in
the early 1930s. Read reviews
or buy this book |
 | Ira Berlin, "Many Thousands Gone: The first two centuries of slavery in North
America," Belknap Press, (1998). Buy this book |
 | M.A. Gomez, "Exchanging our Country Marks: The transformation of African
identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South," Univ. of NC Press, (1998). Read reviews
or buy this book |

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Copyright © 2002 & 2003 by Ontario Consultants on
Religious Tolerance
Originally written: 2002-JUL-11
Latest update: 2003-OCT-16
Author: B.A. Robinson



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