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May 2006Maximum number of Africans brought to America in any single year during the trans-Atlantic slave trade: 35,000
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David Eltis, Emory University (Atlanta)

Mar 2006Minimum number of times that Frederick Douglass was beaten in what is now Donald Rumsfeld’s vacation home: 25
Source:

Harper's research

Oct 2001Maximum reparation per survivor of Nazi slave-labor camps won in a class-action lawsuit settled last May: $7,038
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Remembrance, Responsibility, and the Future (Berlin)

Sep 2001Maximum fine in 1829 for teaching an African American living in Georgia to read or write: $500
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The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (New Haven, Conn.)

Nov 2000Estimated number of hours of labor performed by African-American slaves between 1619 and 1865: 222,505,049
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Clarence J. Munford, Race and Reparations, African World Press, Inc. (Trenton, N.J.)

Nov 2000Estimated 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
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Richard F. America, Ed., The Wealth of Races, Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.)

Jun 2000Ratio of the average 1850 price in Texas of a healthy male slave to that of 200 acres of prime farmland: 1:1
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Texas State Historical Association (Austin)

Jan 2000Estimated number of people who are enslaved: 27,000,000
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Kevin Bales, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, University of California Press (Berkeley)

Jan 2000Votes by which 18th-century U.S. lawmakers rejected outlawing slavery in all future states beyond the original thirteen: 1
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William Lee Miller, Arguing About Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress, Knopf (N.Y.C.)

Jan 2000Estimated number of anti-slavery petitions sent to Congress between 1835 and 1836: 500
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William Lee Miller, Arguing About Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress, Knopf (N.Y.C.)

Jan 2000Factor by which the Constitution allowed a state to count its slaves when allocating House seats and electoral votes: 3/5
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William Lee Miller, Arguing About Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress, Knopf (N.Y.C.)

Jan 2000Chance that a New York State resident in 1776 was a slave: 1 in 7
Source:

William Lee Miller, Arguing About Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress, Knopf (N.Y.C.)

Jan 2000Estimated number of serfs Catherine the Great gave away as gifts: 45,000
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Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution

Jan 2000Number of Americans now employed as “serfs” or “wenches” at Medieval Times entertainment complexes in the U.S.: 1,400
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Medieval Times (Lyndhurst, N.J.)

Jun 1999Price an Indiana historical museum charges visitors to spend 90 minutes as a runaway slave: $15
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Conner Prairie Museum (Indianapolis)

Jun 1999Estimated ratio of white to black runaways in an Indiana historical museum's slavery re-enactments this year: 2:1
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Conner Prairie Museum (Indianapolis)

Jun 1999Number of months after the Civil War ended that slaves in Texas were told of their emancipation: 2
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Juneteenth U.S.A. (Houston)/Council of State Governments (Lexington, Ky.)

Jun 1999Number of years that Texas has observed a “Juneteenth” state holiday to commemorate the day its slaves were told they were free: 19
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Juneteenth U.S.A. (Houston)/Council of State Governments (Lexington, Ky.)

Apr 1999Settlement paid 3 female federal inmates last year after guards sold them as sex slaves to male prisoners: $500,000
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Rosen, Bien &Asaro (San Francisco)

Apr 1999Number 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
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Federal Bureau of Prisons (Dublin, Calif.)

Feb 1999Amount a fourth-grade Denver class has raised since last March to buy and free Sudanese slaves: $35,000
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American Anti-Slavery Group (Somerville, Mass.)

Feb 1999Number of Sudanese no longer enslaved as a result of the efforts a fourth-grade Denver class: 600
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American Anti-Slavery Group (Somerville, Mass.)

Oct 1998Number of slave laborers that Volkswagen admits to having used in one of its factories during World War II: 17,000
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Volkswagen (Wolfsburg, Germany)

April 6, 2007The North Carolina Senate expressed “profound contrition” for the state's slave history.
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Washington Post

April 23, 2006It 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.
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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.
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The Duluth News Tribune

April 14, 2005The president of Brazil visited Senegal, where he apologized for Brazil's role in the slave trade.
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BBC News

March 31, 2005A Saudi Arabian princess was arrested for keeping slaves in Winchester, Massachusetts.
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BostonHerald.com

March 5, 2005 Niger decided not to hold a ceremony to free seven thousand slaves, because slavery does not exist in Niger.
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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.
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HindustanTimes.com

September 30, 2004 UNICEF warned that sex slavery is booming in south Asia.
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Reuters

April 26, 2004 Unicef released a report on slavery in Africa concluding that the practice continues in every country on the continent.
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BBC

October 10, 2000Silver 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.

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