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    The United Nations General Assembly declared 2004 as the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (having welcomed...
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    declared 2004 the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition. This proclamation marked the bicentenary of the proclamation...
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  • the Assembly proclaimed 2004 the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition. The United Nations emphasizes the fight...
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    Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition in 2004 the International Year for People of African Descent in 2011 the International Decade for...
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    Ideals and organizations Abolitionism: Compensated emancipation International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition Abolitionism...
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    and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). 2004 was a year marked by many popular and highly...
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    culminated in the abolition of American slavery through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Civil War in the United States...
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    Trade": Culture, UNESCO. "Struggles against slavery: International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition", p. 9. UNESDOC, UNESCO...
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    2007 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the United Kingdom through the work of the British Anti-Slavery Society...
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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...
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    Emancipation Day (category History of slavery in the District of Columbia)
    holiday to commemorate the abolition of slavery. In Trinidad and Tobago, Emancipation Day replaced Columbus Discovery Day, which commemorated the arrival...
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    Slave codes (category Slavery in the British Empire)
    Human trafficking Indentured servitude International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Ohio Black Codes Slave narrative Slave...
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    history and its ongoing struggle with systemic racism. Until the early 1850s, most enslaved African people who arrived on Brazilian shores were forced to embark...
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    John Brown (abolitionist) (category Members of the National Abolition Hall of Fame)
    [in] 1847, while I continued to write and speak against slavery, I became all the same less hopeful for its peaceful abolition." During Brown's time in Springfield...
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    William Wilberforce (category Independent members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom)
    led to the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which abolished slavery in most of the British Empire. Wilberforce died just three days after hearing that the passage...
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    Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery. (London: Macmillan, 2005), ISBN 0-333-90491-5 Lloyd, Christopher. The Navy and the Slave Trade: The Suppression...
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    provided for the immediate or gradual abolition of slavery. No Southern state did so, and the slave population of the South continued to grow, peaking...
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    Clarkson campaigned for the abolition of slavery worldwide. In 1840, he was the key speaker at the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society's first convention...
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    the mantle of abolition fell to its newly formed successor, the Republican Party. Manifest destiny heightened the conflict over slavery. Each new territory...
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  • Thumbnail for Slavery at American colleges and universities
    The role of slavery at American colleges and universities has been a focus of historical investigation and controversy. Enslaved Africans labored to build...
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    South, where the fear of slavery's abolition had grown. Another factor leading to secession and the formation of the Confederacy was the development of...
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  • domestic and international cultural organizations, including UNESCO. UNESCO declared 2004 to be the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery...
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    Granville Sharp (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    Clarkson and William Wilberforce led to the abolition of slave trade through the Slave Trade Act 1807. Sharp died in 1813, two decades before the Slavery Abolition...
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    Slavery in ancient Rome played an important role in society and the economy. Unskilled or low-skill slaves labored in the fields, mines, and mills with...
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  • prohibiting capital punishment and promoting its wider abolition. Several international organizations have made abolition of the death penalty (during time...
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    Dred Scott (category United States slavery case law)
    The Scotts claimed that they should be granted freedom because Dred had lived in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory for four years, where slavery was...
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    under international admiralty law for salvage of the vessel, the cargo, and the Africans. Gedney allegedly chose to land in Connecticut because slavery was...
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    La Mulâtresse Solitude (category People from the French West Indies)
    and heroine in the fight against slavery on French Guadeloupe. She has been the subject of legends and a symbol of women's resistance in the struggle...
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    and William Craft (September 25, 1824 – January 29, 1900) were American abolitionists who were born into slavery in Macon, Georgia. They escaped to the...
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    Juneteenth (category Abolitionism in the United States)
    holiday in the United States commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Its name is a portmanteau of the words "June" and "nineteenth"...
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