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• SARA JAMES
... Bosnian War Crimes Tribunal, throughout Asia to report on medical experiments conducted on prisoners of war by the Japanese during World War II, to London to cover the death of Princess Diana and to Sudan for an investigation of present-day slavery ...
• Witness protection in ex-Liberia leader trial
Taylor, 59, is to go on trial June 4 on 11 charges, including terrorism, murder, rape, sexual slavery, mutilation and recruiting child soldiers. He has pleaded innocent and faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if convicted. Taylor was flown ...
• Sex, drugs and guns in the Balkans
As hard as it is to link sex slavery with illegal arms purchases, it’s arguable that the region’s sex slave trade has made crime syndicates rich. Of the nearly 1 million women trafficked as sex slaves worldwide each year, an estimated 200,000 ...
• 2. Escaping brutal bondage in Europe
On buses and cars — and crossing borders on foot — Natasha followed a path to sex slavery trodden by thousands of other hapless women, passing, under the watchful eyes of a gang of Balkans thugs, through Romania, Serbia and Kosovo before ending ...
• A Town Hall discussion about race
... to North Carolina to meet David B. Wilson, a descendant of the white Southern family that owned his ancestors during the slavery ... In the year of Barack Obama, there is much discussion of the state of race relations in America. But many other race ...

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• Society: History: By Topic: Social History: Labor  (25)
• Society: Issues: Labor: Slavery  (33)

» The Terrible Transformation   - Numerous articles tracing the origins of American slavery from the European incursion into Africa to mid 18th century America, maps, timelines, and illustrations.


» Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition - Center at Yale University dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of knowledge concerning all aspects of chattel slavery and its destruction.
» Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters - A comprehensive introduction to the life and work of an 18th century slave, and his achievements in London; includes a biography, extracts from his writing, images, links, music, and bibliography,
» Olaudah Equiano - Excerpts from Equiano's slave autobiography, a best-seller of the 18th century that had a major impact on English and American public opinion.
» Quobna Ottobah Cugoano :: a Former Slave Speaks Out - An introduction to the author of the first substantial anti-slavery text written in English by an African. Includes a biography, extracts from his writing, images, links, and a bibliography.
» Race and Slavery in the Middle East - Two chapters on the roots of African slavery, specifically in the Middle eastern region, by Bernard Lewis, Oxford University Press.
» The Roots of American Slavery - Bibliographical essay by Philip J. Schwarz, Virginia Commonwealth University.
» Slave Movement during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - This site provides access to raw data and documentation on a variety of slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
» Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation - Resources including slave narratives, biographies of abolitionists, images, poetry, links, and further readings.
» Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies - Journal covering demographic, social, economic, historical and psychological aspects of slavery and its eradication from the ancient period to the present.