Lancashire Telegraph on MSN5d
Lancashire's links to the slave trade on anniversary of abolition act
Today marks an important date in British history. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act passed through parliament on March 25 ...
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Crimes of the transatlantic slave trade ‘unacknowledged, unspoken and unaddressed’
The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago but its legacy is ever present, the UN Secretary-General said on ...
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Lancashire's links to the slave trade on anniversary of abolition act
Today marks an important date in British history. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act passed through parliament on March 25 1807 which abolished the transatlantic slave trade. It did not ...
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Int'l Day of Remembrance for Victims of Slavery being observed today
The International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is being observed today.
Harriet Tubman fought slavery. Most of the men on US paper currency had ties to it
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...
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America’s Human Rights Crisis: Prison Slavery
The Thirteenth Amendment, ratified in December 1865, inscribes the Emancipation Proclamation’s abolition of slavery into the ... Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in all 50 states.