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Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

So slavery is to be abolished, but it is a fundamental principle of God’s relationship with us that he does not force us to change faster than is possible of our own freewill.

The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in ...

Almost all of them. And white men were primarily the ones who abolished slavery on top of it. So, that's historical reality. And the fact that it's even remotely controversial to say this is is ...

In the new History Channel documentary series “Thomas Jefferson,” America’s third president claimed that he had a plan to ...

3 but was telegraphed from India only last week), the Maharaja said that the Government would assist in the suppression of slavery by buying slaves from those owners who were inclined to sell and ...

Slaves do not own their own labor. The maximum tax rate on a 19th century plantation slave’s labor was 50%, as half of his ...