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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.
- Anti-Slavery International - Promotes the eradication of slavery and slavery-like practices, and freedom for everyone who is subjected to them.
- Slavery In the Western Hemisphere - Multimedia textbook by students at Coral Gables High School covering slavery in British America and the United States.
- Classics on American Slavery - Collection of scholarly books and articles on American slavery, published before 1923.
- Scientific American: The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery - Contrary to conventional wisdom, slavery has not disappeared from the world. Social scientists are trying to explain its persistence Article by Kevin Bales.
- Anti-Slavery International - Advocates for the eradication of slavery and other forms of forced labor and slavery-like practices around the world.
- Abolish Slavery - Soon - Campaign to help raise awareness about modern slavery and to highlight organizations working against it.
- 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.
- Free the Slaves - Abolish Modern Slavery - The Center of the Modern American Abolishionist Movement inspired by Kevin Bales' book, Disposable People, works to abolish slavery worldwide.
Wikipedia Articles
- Slavery in antiquity - Slavery as an institution in Mediterranean cultures of the ancient world comprised a mixture of debt-slavery, slavery as a punishment for crime, and the enslavement of prisoners of war.Ancient Slavery
- Slavery at common law - Slavery at common law refers to the legal status of slavery and the slave trade under the system of law used in England and adopted by its former colonies. Some groups assert slavery was not recognised as lawful,Anti-slavery society often on the basis of pronouncements such as those attributed (incorrectly) to Lord Mansfield, that "the air ...
- Act Against Slavery - The Act Against Slavery was an Act passed by Upper Canada on July 9, 1793 to prohibit slavery. The Act remained in force until 1834 when the British Parliament's Slavery Abolition Act abolished slavery in all parts of the British Empire.
- Slavery in Canada - Slavery in Canada was first practised by some aboriginal nations, who routinely captured slaves from neighbouring tribes as part of their laws of war. However, chattel slavery (where slaves were the private property of their owners and their children were born into slavery as well) started with the European settlements, appearing soon after the colonies were founded in the early 1600s.
- American Anti-Slavery Group - The American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG) is a coalition of abolitionist organizations engaged in political activism to abolish slavery in the world today. It raises awareness of contemporary slavery, particularly among the chattel slaves of Mauritania and Sudan, raises funds to support relief and aid to enslaved populations and escaped former slaves, and lobbies government officials for such purposes.