Slavery

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70-77	March 2008 Article Lonely in America: Contemplating the remains of slavery By Wendy S. Walters SEE ALSO: Africans; Biography; Cemeteries; Desecration; Loneliness; New Orleans; Portsmouth; Slavery; Walters, Wendy S. PDF IMAGES
24-25	June 2005 Readings/Article Let my people stay By Douglas Wilson and J. Steven Wilkins SEE ALSO: Slavery PDF IMAGES
37-51	November 2000 Article Making the case for racial reparations: Does America owe a debt to the descendants of its slaves? By Willie E. Gary, Alexander J., Jr. Pires, Richard F. Scruggs, and Dennis C., III Sweet SEE ALSO: Claims; Class actions (Civil procedure); Reparations; Slavery PDF IMAGES
41	November 2000 Article [Untitled Article] By Jourdon Anderson SEE ALSO: African American men; Freedmen; Slavery PDF IMAGES
44	November 2000 Article Timeline of reparations for American slavery SEE ALSO: Claims; Reparations; Slavery PDF IMAGES
48-49	November 2000 Article A legislative and judicial history of American slavery and its aftermath SEE ALSO: Legal status, laws, etc.; Slavery PDF IMAGES
114-118	June 2000 Article P.T. Barnum and my great-great-granddad's slaves By Allan Gurganus SEE ALSO: Gurganus, Allan; Circus; Family; Barnum, P.T. (Phineas Taylor); Performances—North Carolina; Slaveholders; Slavery PDF IMAGES
16-20	January 1996 Readings/Article The service economy find its roots By Bill Hall SEE ALSO: Employment agencies; Slavery PDF IMAGES
52	September 1967 Article Foreword to “The confessions of Nat Turner” SEE ALSO: Career as leader of Southampton Insurrection, 1831; Turner, Nat; Slavery; Southampton Insurrection, 1831; The confessions of Nat Turner (Book); Styron, William PDF IMAGES
244-253	July 1907 Article Decisive battles of the law. Dred Scott vs. Sanford: The uncovering of an historic trial By Frederick Trevor Hill SEE ALSO: Scott, Dred; Sanford, John F.A.; Missouri compromise; Portraits; Slavery; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
327-337	February 1906 Article The slave-trade of to-day. Conclusion.—The islands of doom By Henry Woodd Nevinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Cocoa trade; Colonies; Forced labor; Portugal; Sao Tome and Principe; Slave-trade; Slavery; Slaves PDF IMAGES
237-246	January 1906 Article The slave-trade of to-day. Part VI.—The slaves at sea By Henry Woodd Nevinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Colonies; Forced labor; Nevinson, Henry Woodd; Journeys—Africa; Portugal; Sao Tome and Principe; Slave-trade; Slavery PDF IMAGES
114-122	December 1905 Article The slave-trade of to-day. Part V.—Down to the coast By Henry Woodd Nevinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Angola; Colonies; Forced labor; Portugal; Slave-trade; Slavery PDF IMAGES
849-858	November 1905 Article The slave-trade of to-day. Part IV.—“The hungry country” By Henry Woodd Nevinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Africa, Central; Colonies; Portugal; Slave-trade; Slavery PDF IMAGES
668-676	October 1905 Article The slave-trade of to-day. Part III By Henry Woodd Nevinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Angola; Colonies; Colonization; Forced labor; Nevinson, Henry Woodd; Journeys—Africa; Portugal; Slave-trade; Slavery PDF IMAGES
535-544	September 1905 Article The new slave-trade. Introductory II.—West-African plantation life to-day By Henry Woodd Nevinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Angola; Contract labor; Forced labor; Nevinson, Henry Woodd; Journeys—Africa; Slavery PDF IMAGES
341-350	August 1905 Article The new slave-trade. Introductory [I].—Down the West Coast By Henry Woodd Nevinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Africa, West; Colonization; Forced labor; Nevinson, Henry Woodd; Journeys—Africa; Slavery PDF IMAGES
319-328	January 1899 Article Brother Jonathan's colonies. A historical account By Albert Bushnell Hart SEE ALSO: American influences; Cession to the United States, 1819; Indian reservations; Liberia; Louisiana Purchase; Oregon; Reconstruction; Slavery; Spanish-American War, 1898; Territorial expansion; To 1859 PDF IMAGES
324	January 1892 Editor's drawer/Article A question of ownership SEE ALSO: Slavery PDF IMAGES
653-655	March 1889 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; Washington, George; Bernard, John; 1783-1789; Retrospections of America, 1797-1811 (Book); Slavery PDF IMAGES
797-800	October 1885 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Foreign public opinion, British; Slavery; Carlyle, Thomas PDF IMAGES
317	January 1877 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Slavery; Stamp duties PDF IMAGES
33-43	December 1876 Article The Knickerbockers of New York two centuries ago By Egbert L. (Egbert Ludovicus) Viele SEE ALSO: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Dutch Americans; Knickerbocker, Herman Jansen; Homes and haunts; Knickerbocker, Johannes; Schaghticoke (Rensselaer County, New York : Estate); Slavery; Slaves PDF IMAGES
271	July 1867 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Conduct of court proceedings; Slavery PDF IMAGES
244-250	July 1866 Article Education of the colored population of Louisiana By Nathan Willey SEE ALSO: Creoles; Slavery PDF IMAGES
130-131	June 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Baltimore; Slavery PDF IMAGES
440-453	March 1865 Article Sugar-making in Cuba By Henry B. Auchincloss SEE ALSO: Africans; Chinese; Cuba; Slavery; Sugar; Sugar factories PDF IMAGES
282-283	January 1861 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Mississippi River; Slavery PDF IMAGES
519-537	September 1859 Article The dividing line between federal and local authority. Popular sovereignty in the territories By Stephen Arnold Douglas SEE ALSO: Extension to the territories; Federal-state controversies; 1857-1861; Slavery; Squatter sovereignty PDF IMAGES
265-269	July 1856 Editor's table/Article Editor's table By Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey SEE ALSO: Elections; Slavery PDF IMAGES
687-691	October 1854 Editor's table/Article Editor's table By Henry J. (Henry Jarvis) Raymond SEE ALSO: Extension to the territories; Slavery PDF IMAGES
420	February 1853 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By Donald Grant Mitchell SEE ALSO: Stowe, Harriet Beecher; Slavery; Uncle Tom's Cabin (Book) PDF IMAGES

666	March 1899 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By John Kendrick Bangs SEE ALSO: Robins, Elizabeth; Slavery; The open question (Book) PDF IMAGES
971	May 1893 Editor's study/Review — (V) By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: History of the United States from the compromise of 1850 (Book); Rhodes, James Ford; Slavery PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 487-488	August 1892 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Robinson, Charles; Extension to the territories; Governors; Kansas; 1854-1861; Slavery; The Kansas conflict (Book) PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 974-975	November 1890 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Authors, Scottish; Greeks; Nicholson, J. Shield (Joeseph Shield); Slavery; Toxar, a romance (Book) PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 326-327	July 1890 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Hearn, Lafcadio; Martinique; Slavery; Youma; the story of a West-Indian slave (Book) PDF IMAGES
804-805	October 1889 Editor's study/Review — (IV) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: A history of the ancient working people, from the earliest known period to the adoption of Christianity by Constantine (Book); Ward, C. Osborne (Cyrenus Osborne); Greece; Jesus Christ; Rome; Slavery; Working class PDF IMAGES
660-661	March 1889 Editor's study/Review — (III) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Confederation, 1783-1789; Fiske, John; Slavery; The critical period of American history, 1783-1789 (Book) PDF IMAGES
661-662	March 1889 Editor's study/Review — (IV) By William Dean Howells SEE ALSO: Biography; Cabinet officers; Career as U.S. president; Diplomatic and consular service, British; Diplomatic and consular service, French; Randolph, Edmund; Washington, George; Fiske, John; Conway, Moncure Daniel; 1789-1797; Omitted chapters of history disclosed in the life and papers of Edmund Randolph, governor of Virginia: first attorney-general United States, secretary of state (Book); Slavery; The critical period of American history, 1783-1789 (Book) PDF IMAGES

May 2006	Maximum number of Africans brought to America in any single year during the trans-Atlantic slave trade: 35,000	Harper's Index Source: David Eltis, Emory University (Atlanta)
Mar 2006	Minimum number of times that Frederick Douglass was beaten in what is now Donald Rumsfeld’s vacation home: 25	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
Oct 2001	Maximum reparation per survivor of Nazi slave-labor camps won in a class-action lawsuit settled last May: $7,038	Harper's Index Source: Remembrance, Responsibility, and the Future (Berlin)
Sep 2001	Maximum fine in 1829 for teaching an African American living in Georgia to read or write: $500	Harper's Index Source: The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (New Haven, Conn.)
Nov 2000	Estimated number of hours of labor performed by African-American slaves between 1619 and 1865: 222,505,049	Harper's Index Source: Clarence J. Munford, Race and Reparations, African World Press, Inc. (Trenton, N.J.)
Nov 2000	Estimated value of the labor performed by African-American slaves between 1619 and 1865, compounded at 6 percent interest through 1993: $97,100,000,000,000	Harper's Index Source: Richard F. America, Ed., The Wealth of Races, Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.)
Jun 2000	Ratio of the average 1850 price in Texas of a healthy male slave to that of 200 acres of prime farmland: 1:1	Harper's Index Source: Texas State Historical Association (Austin)
Jan 2000	Estimated number of people who are enslaved: 27,000,000	Harper's Index Source: Kevin Bales, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, University of California Press (Berkeley)
Jan 2000	Votes by which 18th-century U.S. lawmakers rejected outlawing slavery in all future states beyond the original thirteen: 1	Harper's Index Source: William Lee Miller, Arguing About Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress, Knopf (N.Y.C.)
Jan 2000	Estimated number of anti-slavery petitions sent to Congress between 1835 and 1836: 500	Harper's Index Source: William Lee Miller, Arguing About Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress, Knopf (N.Y.C.)
Jan 2000	Factor by which the Constitution allowed a state to count its slaves when allocating House seats and electoral votes: 3/5	Harper's Index Source: William Lee Miller, Arguing About Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress, Knopf (N.Y.C.)
Jan 2000	Chance that a New York State resident in 1776 was a slave: 1 in 7	Harper's Index Source: William Lee Miller, Arguing About Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress, Knopf (N.Y.C.)
Jan 2000	Estimated number of serfs Catherine the Great gave away as gifts: 45,000	Harper's Index Source: Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution
Jan 2000	Number of Americans now employed as “serfs” or “wenches” at Medieval Times entertainment complexes in the U.S.: 1,400	Harper's Index Source: Medieval Times (Lyndhurst, N.J.)
Jun 1999	Price an Indiana historical museum charges visitors to spend 90 minutes as a runaway slave: $15	Harper's Index Source: Conner Prairie Museum (Indianapolis)
Jun 1999	Estimated ratio of white to black runaways in an Indiana historical museum's slavery re-enactments this year: 2:1	Harper's Index Source: Conner Prairie Museum (Indianapolis)
Jun 1999	Number of months after the Civil War ended that slaves in Texas were told of their emancipation: 2	Harper's Index Source: Juneteenth U.S.A. (Houston)/Council of State Governments (Lexington, Ky.)
Jun 1999	Number of years that Texas has observed a “Juneteenth” state holiday to commemorate the day its slaves were told they were free: 19	Harper's Index Source: Juneteenth U.S.A. (Houston)/Council of State Governments (Lexington, Ky.)
Apr 1999	Settlement paid 3 female federal inmates last year after guards sold them as sex slaves to male prisoners: $500,000	Harper's Index Source: Rosen, Bien &Asaro (San Francisco)
Apr 1999	Number of the 9 prison employees named in the women's lawsuit, charged with selling the women as sex slaves to male prisoners, who were charged with a crime: 0	Harper's Index Source: Federal Bureau of Prisons (Dublin, Calif.)
Feb 1999	Amount a fourth-grade Denver class has raised since last March to buy and free Sudanese slaves: $35,000	Harper's Index Source: American Anti-Slavery Group (Somerville, Mass.)
Feb 1999	Number of Sudanese no longer enslaved as a result of the efforts a fourth-grade Denver class: 600	Harper's Index Source: American Anti-Slavery Group (Somerville, Mass.)
Oct 1998	Number of slave laborers that Volkswagen admits to having used in one of its factories during World War II: 17,000	Harper's Index Source: Volkswagen (Wolfsburg, Germany)

April 6, 2007	The North Carolina Senate expressed “profound contrition” for the state's slave history.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: Washington Post
April 23, 2006	It was reported that firms performing contract work for KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary that provides basic services to the U.S. military in Iraq, were violating human trafficking laws and confiscating the passports of their employees.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: San Jose Mercury News
January 17, 2006	New York Senator Hillary Clinton said that Republicans were running the House of Representatives "like a plantation." Republicans disagreed with Clinton, and Al Sharpton complained that she was stealing his material.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Duluth News Tribune
April 14, 2005	The president of Brazil visited Senegal, where he apologized for Brazil's role in the slave trade.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BBC News
March 31, 2005	A Saudi Arabian princess was arrested for keeping slaves in Winchester, Massachusetts.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BostonHerald.com
March 5, 2005	Niger decided not to hold a ceremony to free seven thousand slaves, because slavery does not exist in Niger.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BBC News
February 22, 2005	UNICEF reported that 180 million children aged five to seventeen are forced into the “worst forms” of labor, including the sex and slave trades.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: HindustanTimes.com
September 30, 2004	UNICEF warned that sex slavery is booming in south Asia.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Reuters
April 26, 2004	Unicef released a report on slavery in Africa concluding that the practice continues in every country on the continent.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: BBC
October 10, 2000	Silver Dollar City, Inc., the company that owns Dollywood, the Dolly Parton theme park, announced it would open a Southern theme park in Stone Mountain, Georgia, the birthplace of the modern Ku Klux Klan; the company plans to emphasize the fun side of Southern history.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge

90	February 2001 Correction Correction By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Slavery; -Statistics PDF IMAGES

749-756	October 1900 Fiction The Other Maumer By Virginia Frazer Boyle SEE ALSO: Slavery PDF IMAGES
527-535	March 1900 Fiction “A kingdom for Micajah” By Virginia Frazer Boyle SEE ALSO: Slavery PDF IMAGES
408-425	February 1890 Fiction Youma (part II) By Lafcadio Hearn SEE ALSO: Insurrections, etc.; Martinique; Slavery; Women slaves PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 168-235	January 1890 Fiction Youma (part I) By Lafcadio Hearn SEE ALSO: Insurrections, etc.; Martinique; Slavery; Women slaves PDF IMAGES

683	April 1878 Poem To a pioneer of antislavery By Alfred H. Louis SEE ALSO: Abolitionists; Slavery PDF IMAGES
737	May 1863 Poem Nettie's shells By Henry Mills Alden SEE ALSO: Slavery PDF IMAGES

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