Google News Alert for: slavery

Lammy: Blair's slavery statement is historic
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
Culture minister David Lammy has commended the prime minister for expressing "deep sorrow" over Britain's role in the slave trade as commemorations are planned ...
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Statement on slavery
The Good News UK - Kingston upon Hull,UK
The Evangelical Alliance has welcomed the prime minister's statement on slavery, published in New Nation today, in a press statement. ...

Slavery Is Past. It's Time Brazil and Africa Unite in Mutual ...
Brazzil.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
During 350 years of black slavery in Brazil, millions of Africans were pulled out of their natural and social environments, condemned to years of dispersion ...

CRE: Blair's recognition of slavery matters
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
"Like millions of others, if it were not for the monstrous crime of transatlantic slavery, Trevor Phillips would not be my name," he told a race convention ...

Fight against slavery is not over, says Blair
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... "We also need, while reflecting on the past, to acknowledge the unspeakable cruelty that persists in the form of modern day slavery. ...
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Refuting the Lie That Lincoln Was 'Moderate' on Abolishing Slavery
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) - Leesburg,VA,USA
... in many circles concerning the outlook of President Abraham Lincoln: that Lincoln was a "moderate" and a "pragmatist" on the issue of slavery eradication; and ...

'Deep sorrow' for slavery is better than guilt
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... In respect of slavery, Britain can derive both satisfaction and disquiet from its history. ... Well, next Saturday is the UN's Day for the Abolition of Slavery. ...
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Is the Military Draft a Form of Slavery?
Rutherford Institute - Charlottesville,VA,USA
... Indeed, the Thirteenth Amendment to our Constitution protects Americans from slavery and involuntary servitude. Passed in 1865, this ...

Riffing slavery
Philadelphia Daily News - Philadelphia,PA,USA
By SEAN BRADY. WITH HIS distinguished demeanor and erudite tone, it's hard to imagine Dave Burrell in an eye patch and Jolly-Roger captain's hat. ...

Should Britain apologise for slavery?
The Sunday Times - UK
... also apologise? I watched Ken Livingston's slavery advisor last night and I have to say that I agree with him to a point. However ...
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Rendezvous of Victory: Blair's slavery comments a backwards step
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
... Victims of slavery had not been offered "financial, moral or political" reparation, he argued adding: "Now for Tony Blair to…refuse to mention any reparations ...
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Google Blogs Alert for: slavery

Slavery: It Wasn’t Me
By JackP
Some anti-slavery groups thing he’s not gone far enough and should offer an ... But, as I said the poor wee lamb can’t even say that slavery is a bad thing ... I don’t say was because while it is no longer legal, slavery still exists ...
ThePickards - http://www.thepickards.co.uk

Slavery
By Marc Alton-cooper
Christian churches had sadly turned a blind eye to the slave trade, ... In the late 18th century, an anti-slavery movement began to gain momentum in British ... The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act threatened fines of £100 for every ...
Emergent UK Media Arts - http://creation.blogs.com/emergent_uk_media_arts/

No More Talk Of Slavery
By Praguetory
If you want to discuss slavery, type slavery in the search blog menu and take your pick. I didn't opened this Pandora's box, Blair did with his expression of deep sorrow. Another notable instance where he expressed "deep sorrow" was in ...
Praguetory - http://praguetory.blogspot.com

Neuhaus on the Bible and Slavery
By Larry Arnhart
To illustrate this, I have noted the fact that the Bible does not clearly condemn slavery as immoral. In fact, all of the specific references to slavery in the Bible seem to sanction it. So in the antebellum debate over the morality of ...
Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart - http://darwinianconservatism.blogspot.com

Compensation for slavery ? You are kidding
By Guthrum(Guthrum)
The slave trade was a black on black crime assisted by the Arab ... The British Government abolished slavery and enforced that ban by using the British Navy. ... The abolition of slavery is something we should be proud of, not ashamed.
Looking for a voice - http://lookingforavoice.blogspot.com/index.html

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Reluctance to apologise for slavery is a sorry tale
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... When slavery ended in the British West Indies, recorded "imports" of two million souls left a surviving slave population of 670,000. ...
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British leader sorry about slavery -- to a point
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
Activists are pressuring Britain to offer an apology -- and reparations -- for its role in slavery before it marks the 200th anniversary of the law that banned ...

Activists say Britain should apologize for role in slavery
Houston Chronicle - United States
... Activists are pressuring Britain to offer an apology — and reparations — for its role in slavery before it marks the 200th anniversary of the law that ...
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Google Blogs Alert for: slavery

Beyond Slavery
By Mat Johnson(Mat Johnson)
A lot of people think slavery really messed our people up. A lot of people in America, black and white, think it is our slave past that is at the root of the ... I'm going to let you in on a little secret: slavery didn't do this to us. ...
NIGGERATI MANOR - http://www.niggerati.com/NiggeratiManor.html

21st Century Slavery?
By MIA Blog(MIA Blog)
A committee of peers chaired by Lord Grenfell has said that the expansion of the European Union in 2004, that saw 10 eastern European countries join the EU, has boosted the UK economy. The UK’s ‘open door’ policy on immigration from ...
MIA Blog - http://mia-uk.blogspot.com/index.html

21st century american slavery
By steve
Some of the people are probably bad guys, but many are probably sold into what might be called slavery for the administration's purposes. (we certainly talked about the Soviet Gulag as a slave system). excerpt ...
tingilinde - http://tingilinde.typepad.com/starstuff/

Slavery is a state of mind.
By Unity
I thought I’d start this article with another ‘treasure’ from my storehouse of personal anecdotes dating back to my days as a youth worker. One of the semi-regular chores during my time as a youth worker was the ...
Ministry of Truth - http://www.ministryoftruth.org.uk

Celebrating the end of slavery
By Duncan Borrowman(Duncan Borrowman)
Much is being said about whether we should apologise for slavery. I don't really believe in apologising for the errors of previous generations. But I do think we should be celebrating the 200 years since the 1807 act abolishing slavery. ...
Duncan Borrowman - http://duncanborrowman.blogspot.com/index.html

Google News Alert for: slavery

Charlie Rangel’s “New” Slavery
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
... The essence of slavery does not change simply because you decree enslavement is for a patriotic cause. ... The practice of slavery knows no color boundaries. ...

Tony Blair should not apologise for slave trade
Bolton News - Bolton,UK
... And it is filled by the ugly issue of slavery. ... There is nothing wrong in remembering and talking about slavery, as this issue is in the pages of history. ...
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Forms of modern slavery
Zee News - Noida,India
The International Day for Abolition of Slavery falls on December 2. The very fact that such a day is still acknowledged implies that the modern era is also ...

West is master of slave trade guilt
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... In much of western Europe, the US and Canada, inherited culpability for slavery, colonialism, the treatment of indigenous people and the Palestinian question ...
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New York Remembers Its Past Ties to Slavery
Voice of America - USA
... But some may be surprised to find out how different the city was in its early years. A new exhibit re-examines New York's role in slavery. ...

2 aldermen cite slavery, try to block garage pact
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... members want a judge to stop a private firm from operating Millennium and Grant Park garages and force the company to come clean about its ties to slavery. ...
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Slavery Is Never Having to Say You're Sorry
The Friday Thing - London,UK
... days). And now we can add 'If I Apologised For Slavery' by Tony Blair. The ... have. pleased very few with his watery words on slavery. There ...

Slavery and the rise of Caribbean Unity
AntiguaSun - St' John's,Antigua and Barbuda
The Caribbean Community is currently building the foundation and infrastructure, to put in place what is undoubtedly the most significant joint regional effort ...

European human rights body says slavery is back in Europe
Islamic Republic News Agency - Tehran,Iran
"The politically correct terminology for this outrage is trafficking in human beings, but the fact is that slavery is back in Europe, and that our governments ...
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Human Rights Search Engine To Officially Launch On Human Rights ...
All Headline News - USA
Human Rights groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Anti-Slavery International said that existing search engines didn't help them in ...
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Am I not a man and a brother? Africans are still having to ask
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... In 1833, Parliament made all slavery illegal. ... Moral change came about when people started to think about slavery, and to test it. ...
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INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
UN Observer
2006-12-02 | On 2 December, the world marks International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. Yet at least 12 million people are enslaved worldwide. ...

Shame of city's slavery profits
Scotsman - United Kingdom
As an emotive argument for the abolition of slavery, it hardly ranks alongside William Wilberforce's impassioned plea in 1789 to the House of Commons where he ...
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Light shed on slavery in Sterling Forest
Advertiser-News - USA
Sterling Forest —Harold “Ray” Decker, of the New York State Archealogical Association and Clifton Patrick, Town of Chester historian, made a presentation ...

FEATURE-Poverty, tradition shackle Mauritania's slaves
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... "I told them to shoot me rather than take me back to my master," said Mbreik, red-faced with shame, sitting in the office of anti-slavery group SOS-Slave. ...

Slavery alive in Ireland
U.TV - Belfast,Northern Ireland,UK
According to the human rights watchdog the Council of Europe, slavery is back in Europe - and governments are not doing enough to fight it. ...
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Google Blogs Alert for: slavery

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery (1968)
By chico
10 tracks, mp3, 320 kbps One Ton 95.7 MB Tracklist & pass in comments.
Floodlit Footprint - http://floodlitfootprint.blogspot.com

New York Exhibit Examines Slavery
By editor
“New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War” is the final installment of a year long series on slavery at the New York Historical Society, chronicling the ... “One of the things that you’ll see in this exhibit is slavery was central to ...
Eagle World News - Daily Newspaper... - http://www.eagleworldnews.com

Slavery: PM’s guarded apology
By Andii
Esther Stanford, secretary of Rendezvous of Victory, a group pressing for compensation, said that a national commission was needed to examine the “holocaust of slavery”. I heard the lady on BBC Breakfast news along with an academic ...
Nouslife - http://nouslife.blogspot.com

Haiti
By Gracchi(Gracchi)
The abolition of slavery was a cause embraced at Westminster by the Wilberforces and Pitts, but the events in Haiti gave them increased leverage. As Robin Blackburn shows in an article in this year's William and Mary Quarterly the ...
Westminster Wisdom - http://gracchii.blogspot.com/index.html

Slavery in the US
By andrewjh
I do not think that the US government should have to apologize for slavery in the US The federal government has apologized for things in the past, such as the internment the Japanese in the US during WWII. The internment of the Japanese ...
Contemporary Moral Problems - http://moral-problems.blogspot.com

Saving No Babies is Better Than Saving Some
The call to repentance over slavery began in the Churches of our land. ... Had nothing to do with ending slavery or making progress. Also, the Emancipation Proclamation only ended slavery in the revolting states (not Delaware, Kentucky, ...
Adam's Blog - http://adamsweb.us/blog/index.php/a

Slavery is never having to say your sorry
By Justin
Are you sick of jokes about OJ Simpson and his musings of ‘If I Did It’ yet? Hell, a legion of newspaper columns and topical comedy routines in the last couple of weeks have been hung on nothing else. Imagine ‘If I Lied About WMD in ...
Chicken Yoghurt - http://www.chickyog.net

Conscription Is Slavery
By Brainpolice
Why is it ethically wrong, because a draft is involuntary servitude; slavery. Yet on this vital front, this is the response that I got from the pro-draft leftists: "Everyone in the military gets the same pay, the same food, ...
The Individualist Journal - http://individualist-journal.blogspot.com

The Triumph of the End of Slavery
By Roy Eappen
Tony Blair almost apologized for his ancestors involvement in the slave trade. HM Canadian Governor General,Mme Jean, was in Ghana weeping at the slave dungeons. ... In 1807 slavery was outlawed throughtout tghe British Empire: ...
Dr Roy's Thoughts - http://torydrroy.blogspot.com

Commerce and Conscience: New York, Slavery and the Civil War
This is the New York Historical Society's second major exhibition on the topic of New York's relationship to slavery and the abolitionist movement. The focus of the second exhibition will be on New Yo... Event Date & Time: 12/2/2006 (10 ...
NYC.com's Exclusive New York... - http://www.nyc.com/events/

Google News Alert for: slavery

Charlie Rangel’s “New” Slavery
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
... The essence of slavery does not change simply because you decree enslavement is for a patriotic cause. ... The practice of slavery knows no color boundaries. ...

Tony Blair should not apologise for slave trade
Bolton News - Bolton,UK
... And it is filled by the ugly issue of slavery. ... There is nothing wrong in remembering and talking about slavery, as this issue is in the pages of history. ...
See all stories on this topic

Forms of modern slavery
Zee News - Noida,India
The International Day for Abolition of Slavery falls on December 2. The very fact that such a day is still acknowledged implies that the modern era is also ...

West is master of slave trade guilt
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... In much of western Europe, the US and Canada, inherited culpability for slavery, colonialism, the treatment of indigenous people and the Palestinian question ...
See all stories on this topic

New York Remembers Its Past Ties to Slavery
Voice of America - USA
... But some may be surprised to find out how different the city was in its early years. A new exhibit re-examines New York's role in slavery. ...

2 aldermen cite slavery, try to block garage pact
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... members want a judge to stop a private firm from operating Millennium and Grant Park garages and force the company to come clean about its ties to slavery. ...
See all stories on this topic

Slavery Is Never Having to Say You're Sorry
The Friday Thing - London,UK
... days). And now we can add 'If I Apologised For Slavery' by Tony Blair. The ... have. pleased very few with his watery words on slavery. There ...

Slavery and the rise of Caribbean Unity
AntiguaSun - St' John's,Antigua and Barbuda
The Caribbean Community is currently building the foundation and infrastructure, to put in place what is undoubtedly the most significant joint regional effort ...

European human rights body says slavery is back in Europe
Islamic Republic News Agency - Tehran,Iran
"The politically correct terminology for this outrage is trafficking in human beings, but the fact is that slavery is back in Europe, and that our governments ...
See all stories on this topic

Human Rights Search Engine To Officially Launch On Human Rights ...
All Headline News - USA
Human Rights groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Anti-Slavery International said that existing search engines didn't help them in ...
See all stories on this topic

Am I not a man and a brother? Africans are still having to ask
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... In 1833, Parliament made all slavery illegal. ... Moral change came about when people started to think about slavery, and to test it. ...
See all stories on this topic

INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
UN Observer
2006-12-02 | On 2 December, the world marks International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. Yet at least 12 million people are enslaved worldwide. ...

Shame of city's slavery profits
Scotsman - United Kingdom
As an emotive argument for the abolition of slavery, it hardly ranks alongside William Wilberforce's impassioned plea in 1789 to the House of Commons where he ...
See all stories on this topic

Light shed on slavery in Sterling Forest
Advertiser-News - USA
Sterling Forest —Harold “Ray” Decker, of the New York State Archealogical Association and Clifton Patrick, Town of Chester historian, made a presentation ...

FEATURE-Poverty, tradition shackle Mauritania's slaves
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
... "I told them to shoot me rather than take me back to my master," said Mbreik, red-faced with shame, sitting in the office of anti-slavery group SOS-Slave. ...

Slavery alive in Ireland
U.TV - Belfast,Northern Ireland,UK
According to the human rights watchdog the Council of Europe, slavery is back in Europe - and governments are not doing enough to fight it. ...
See all stories on this topic

Google Blogs Alert for: slavery

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery (1968)
By chico
10 tracks, mp3, 320 kbps One Ton 95.7 MB Tracklist & pass in comments.
Floodlit Footprint - http://floodlitfootprint.blogspot.com

New York Exhibit Examines Slavery
By editor
“New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War” is the final installment of a year long series on slavery at the New York Historical Society, chronicling the ... “One of the things that you’ll see in this exhibit is slavery was central to ...
Eagle World News - Daily Newspaper... - http://www.eagleworldnews.com

Slavery: PM’s guarded apology
By Andii
Esther Stanford, secretary of Rendezvous of Victory, a group pressing for compensation, said that a national commission was needed to examine the “holocaust of slavery”. I heard the lady on BBC Breakfast news along with an academic ...
Nouslife - http://nouslife.blogspot.com

Haiti
By Gracchi(Gracchi)
The abolition of slavery was a cause embraced at Westminster by the Wilberforces and Pitts, but the events in Haiti gave them increased leverage. As Robin Blackburn shows in an article in this year's William and Mary Quarterly the ...
Westminster Wisdom - http://gracchii.blogspot.com/index.html

Slavery in the US
By andrewjh
I do not think that the US government should have to apologize for slavery in the US The federal government has apologized for things in the past, such as the internment the Japanese in the US during WWII. The internment of the Japanese ...
Contemporary Moral Problems - http://moral-problems.blogspot.com

Saving No Babies is Better Than Saving Some
The call to repentance over slavery began in the Churches of our land. ... Had nothing to do with ending slavery or making progress. Also, the Emancipation Proclamation only ended slavery in the revolting states (not Delaware, Kentucky, ...
Adam's Blog - http://adamsweb.us/blog/index.php/a

Slavery is never having to say your sorry
By Justin
Are you sick of jokes about OJ Simpson and his musings of ‘If I Did It’ yet? Hell, a legion of newspaper columns and topical comedy routines in the last couple of weeks have been hung on nothing else. Imagine ‘If I Lied About WMD in ...
Chicken Yoghurt - http://www.chickyog.net

Conscription Is Slavery
By Brainpolice
Why is it ethically wrong, because a draft is involuntary servitude; slavery. Yet on this vital front, this is the response that I got from the pro-draft leftists: "Everyone in the military gets the same pay, the same food, ...
The Individualist Journal - http://individualist-journal.blogspot.com

The Triumph of the End of Slavery
By Roy Eappen
Tony Blair almost apologized for his ancestors involvement in the slave trade. HM Canadian Governor General,Mme Jean, was in Ghana weeping at the slave dungeons. ... In 1807 slavery was outlawed throughtout tghe British Empire: ...
Dr Roy's Thoughts - http://torydrroy.blogspot.com

Commerce and Conscience: New York, Slavery and the Civil War
This is the New York Historical Society's second major exhibition on the topic of New York's relationship to slavery and the abolitionist movement. The focus of the second exhibition will be on New Yo... Event Date & Time: 12/2/2006 (10 ...
NYC.com's Exclusive New York... - http://www.nyc.com/events/