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- The Food Revolution: Is There Slavery In Your Chocolate? - A look at slavery in the coffee and chocolate industries and how slavery has changed over the years. Includes suggestions for fighting against slavery.
- William Wilberforce House Anti-Slavery Society - Organization working for the suppression of child labor and slavery. Consumer guides, newsroom, kids' section, and profiles of current issues.
- The Small Hands of Slavery: Bonded Child Labour in India - Article from Human Rights Watch.
- Global March Against Child Labour - Resources and information relating to the campaign against child labour.
- Child Slaves May Be Making Your Chocolate - According to the BBC, hundreds of thousands of children are being stolen from their parents, shipped to the Ivory Coast and sold as slaves to cocoa farms. Site has list of chocolate companies that ensure their cocoa doesn't come from slaveowners; links to media articles and organizations.
- BBC News: Meeting the 'chocolate slaves' - Humphrey Hawksley reports on child labour in Mali and the Ivory Coast in 2002. He meets with children working the fields and a boy who was almost abducted.
- Save A Slave - Information and education exchange on the plight of modern slavery, child slavery and prostitition around the world, particularly in Sudan, Mauritania, Sudan, China, India and Thailand.
- Bonded Labor/Debt Bondage Resources - Directory of articles and resources related to debt bondage and bonded labor of children worldwide.
- 'Slave boat' mystery exposes legacy of child trafficking - [CNN]
- Child Slavery In Haiti - Restaveks - There are over 300,000 slave children throughout Haiti suffering abuse unheard of in the civilized world. Child slaves as young as 3, are sexually, mentally,
Wikipedia Articles
- National Anti-Slavery Standard - The National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, established in 1840 under the editorship of Lydia Maria Child and David Lee Child. The paper published continuously until the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1870.
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (or simply "Sometimes I Feel") is a traditional Negro spiritual. The song dates back to the era of slavery in the United States when it was common practice to sell children of slaves away from their parents.
- Up From Slavery - Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools (most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama), to helping black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work ...
- Kailash Satyarthi - Kailash Satyarthi (born on January 11, 1954) is a human rights activist from India who's been at the forefront of the global movement to end child slavery and exploitative child labor since 1981. As a grassroots activist, he has led the rescue of over 67,000 child slaves and developed a successful model for their education and rehabilitation.
- Abolitionism - Abolitionism is a political movement that seeks to end the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave trade. It began during the period of the Enlightenment and grew to large proportions in Europe and United States during the 19th century, eventually succeeding in some of its goals, although child and adult slavery and forced labour continue to be widespread to this day.