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 Internationalwas 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/
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 Ghanapromotes 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/
"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.
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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