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    The United Nations Slavery Memorial, officially known as The Ark of Return – The Permanent Memorial at the United Nations in Honour of the Victims of...
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    portal Celestial Sphere Woodrow Wilson Memorial United Nations Slavery Memorial Frommer's Review: United Nations, New York City Attractions, New York City...
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    institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from...
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  • Monument. History of slavery International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition United Nations Slavery Memorial "INTERNATIONAL DAY...
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  • 2018. "Afro-Mexicans". Minority Rights Group International. United Nations Slavery Memorial Archived 10 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine: "Accurate...
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    enslaved people, acknowledgements or apologies to peoples or nations negatively affected by slavery, or honouring the memories of people who were enslaved by...
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    and Memorial Boldly Confronting Slavery and Its Brutal Legacy". Artnet. Retrieved April 26, 2018. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Memorial for...
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    Sexual slavery and sexual exploitation is an attachment of any ownership right over one or more people with the intent of coercing or otherwise forcing...
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    Slavery in Canada includes historical practices of enslavement practised by both the First Nations until the 19th century, and by colonists during the...
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  • with immediate effect. In 1926, the Slavery Convention is ratified by France and other nations. Even when slavery has been prohibited for more than one...
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    treaty bans slavery. The treaty came into force in March 1976 after it had been ratified by 35 nations. As of November 2003, 104 nations had ratified...
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    Retrieved 15 April 2024. "Learning from Slavery– The Legacy of the Slave Trade on Modern Society". www.un.org. United Nations. Retrieved 15 April 2024. "Colonial...
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  • Reparations for slavery is the application of the concept of reparations to victims of slavery or their descendants. There are concepts for reparations...
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    Refugees, the Slavery Commission, and the Economic and Financial Organization. Several of these institutions were transferred to the United Nations after the...
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    Slavery in the colonial history of the United States refers to the institution of slavery that existed in the European colonies in North America which...
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    The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international human rights treaty which sets...
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    abstinence. Some holidays in the United States celebrate or recognize the struggle of African-Americans for emancipation from slavery and civil rights. Two holidays...
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    position on slavery in the United States is one of the most discussed aspects of his life. Lincoln frequently expressed his moral opposition to slavery in public...
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    February 2019. "Permanent Memorial to Honour the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade at the United Nations". UN.org. "UN Dept. Of Global...
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    In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War...
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    modern nation-state to take into account the inability of the founding generation to quickly take care of issues such as the practice of slavery and the...
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    The League of Nations (French: Société des Nations [sɔsjete de nɑsjɔ̃]) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission...
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    (in Korean). United Nations McDougall, Gay J. (June 22, 1998). "Contemporary Forms of Slavery – Systematic rape, sexual slavery and slavery-like practices...
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    Jewish views on slavery are varied both religiously and historically. Judaism's ancient and medieval religious texts contain numerous laws governing the...
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    based in the United Kingdom. It is the world's oldest international human rights organisation, and works exclusively against slavery and related abuses...
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    (secondary coordinates) National memorial is a designation in the United States for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event...
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    antislavery features. The issue of slavery had confounded the nation since its inception and increasingly separated the United States into a slaveholding South...
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    The Slavery Memorial is a sculptural memorial on the campus of Brown University that recognizes the institution's 18th century connections to chattel...
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    institution similar or superior to the free labor in the Northern United States. Some slavery advocates asserted that many slaves were content with their situation...
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    as well as United States law. The historian Samuel Eliot Morison described it in 1969 as the most important court case involving slavery before being...
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