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Those who voted against or abstain from voting lave trade as worst crime against humanity

Emmanuel Adelakun @ogbenishyna44 (1744) 30 Mar

Its kind of interesting to see how countries voted recently when the United Nations declared the slave trade against black people as the greatest crime against humanity. America voted against it, while European countries who are...

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Slave trade in Africa

Ovarrated diva @Fejibaby (105) 1 Dec 17

Have you guys heard about the ongoing slave trade in Libya? People has been used as slaves in Libya and nobody is saying or doing anything about it. Some leaders are condemning videos that appears to show people being “sold like...

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What about the Indian’s?

Ann LeFlore @poehere (15123) • French Polynesia 25 Aug 17

All this talk about slavery and nobody ever talks about the Indian’s. My father is French and my mother is a Sioux Indian. Recently the blacks think they can demand so much from the people who live in America. The Indians received...

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A poignant reminder of Lancashire's involvement in the slave trade.

oldchem1 @oldchem1 (8132) 23 Jun 10

I have my daughter and son in law visiting this week and we have been introducing my son in law to some of the interesting things in this area that there is not a lot known about. Today we took him to a poignant little place,...

sunderland point

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Reminiscence of Slave Trade

Netsbridge @Netsbridge (3253) • United States 16 Feb 10

The improper appropriation of Haitian children by US missionaries is reminiscence of Slave Trade years ago. Did you know that some Africans came to the New Worlds during the Slave Trade because their silly parents, in good faith,...

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babies trade, incredible

megaplaza @megaplaza (1441) • Nigeria 30 Jun 08

last week, i saw on TV, parents that have 9 children and when they gave birth to the ten child, they decided to sell it at 250,000 naira that about $2000, they were reported to the police by their neighbours who caught them in the...

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Should we have to apologise for the slave trade?

smuggeridge @smuggeridge (2148) 25 Mar 07

This week marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade and all this week there has been lots on the news of the importance of appologising for those terrible attrocities, but do we really need to apologise for...

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Slavery and reparations

simonwallace @simonwallace (7) 23 Mar 07

Should the British government pay reparations for the slave trade? As the two hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire closes in this is a question many people are asking...

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Tony Blair has appologised for Britain's role in the Slave Trade , why?

ESKARENA1 @ESKARENA1 (18260) 16 Mar 07

Im not trying to justify the slave trade, but it had been going on in Africa for thousands of years within Africa before the Europeans got involved and i have not heard of any Arab nation appologising for it. Also, does...

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