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Lawyers in Kentucky have filed a suit against a Dubai ruler accusing him of enslaving thousands of children in the camel racing industry.

• Associated Press: Obama says he opposes slavery reparations, apology (August 2, 2008)

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America abolished slavery in the United States. Although President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, slavery ...

Broken Trail is a joint American/Canadian made-for-television Western mini-series from director Walter Hill and starring Robert Duvall. It originally aired on the AMC cable television network and was the ...

William Lloyd Garrison was one of the most influential abolitionist leaders in America during the years that led up to the American Civil War. Through his newspaper, The Liberator, he ...

July 29, 2008: In the first comprehensive apology to African-Americans of its kind, the U.S. House of Representatives recognized "the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity" of slavery and ...

Born into slavery in Maryland around 1820, Harriet Tubman escaped to become an ardent fighter for abolition and women's suffrage. She became known as "The Moses of Her People ...