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The state of Mississippi has finally officially ratified the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery by taking the final step of submitting its papers to the National Archives's Office of the Federal Register.
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Abraham Lincoln has gone down in history as the Great Emancipator, but the real Lincoln was far from the saintly figure he is portrayed today.
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Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained' is the story of a free slave that partners with a white bounty hunter to rescue his wife from a plantation.
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Bristol -
Last Friday, 5 members of the Connors family were convicted at Bristol Crown Court of conspiracy to hold men in forced labour. Today they were sentenced.
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Bristol -
Earlier this year, three members of a family of so-called travellers were convicted of forcing destitute men into slavery. A retrial has resulted in five more convictions.
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Historians are searching for the body and belongings of America's first Muslim, Yarrow Mamout, which they believe could be buried on a property in Washington DC's historic Georgetown.
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London -
It sounds like something out of the 18th Century, but child trafficking is alive and well and flourishing in Britain according to some reports.
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Arkansas Republican Jon Hubbard, in his book "Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative," argues that slavery was a "blessing" and that African-Americans should be thankful that their fathers caught the slave ship to America.
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The official trailer won't come out until this Thursday, but movie and history lovers already can get their first peek at Steven Spielberg's upcoming presidential biopic, "Lincoln". Dreamworks released a 45-second teaser on YouTube yesterday.
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GOP congressional candidate Wes Riddle, who recently got Ron Paul's endorsement, wrote on his personal blog in April, an op-ed in which he attacked the "ideology of multiculturalism," and said African-Americans benefited from slavery.
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James Hopkinson's Plantation slaves planting sweet potatoes (c. 1862/63).
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