Heroes of the Faith: Amanda Smith
The life of Amanda Smith was extraordinary: she travelled from being a black slave to becoming the first international woman evangelist.
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Slavery
Heroes of the Faith: George Washington Carver
To understand George Washington Carver, the great African-American agriculturalist and educator, you have to know something of the world in which he lived. Even though slavery was legally abolished across the United States in 1865, it cast a long-lasting and bitter shadow. African-Americans now lived in freedom, but poverty and discrimination continued.
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How one man freed over 1000 Sudanese slaves in 2020
In less than a year, one doctor in California has raised enough money via social media to free 1125 slaves in Sudan.
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Slave owner name removed from Hackney gardens
The name of a slave owner has been removed from entrance signs to a Hackney park in the first action
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Record numbers of UK nationals need help to break free from slavery
New figures show The Salvation Army supported 79% more British slavery survivors than the previous year despite a fall in
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Face masks to tackle modern slavery launched by The Salvation Army
Face masks designed to spread awareness of modern slavery have been launched by The Salvation Army and are available to
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New figures show sharp rise in the number of modern slavery referrals
The number of potential modern slavery victims referred to the UK’s National Referral Mechanism (NRM) rose sharply last year, according
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The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, one of the oldest Roman Catholic girls’ schools in the nation, has long celebrated the vision and generosity
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Found: The Oldest-Known Photograph of Enslaved African Americans With Cotton
The image is simple and haunting. Ten enslaved African-American people stand in front of a two-story, white clapboard building, some
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The Knot and Pinterest will no longer promote slave plantations
The wedding venues are often said to have a “touch of southern charm.” One boasts of an 18th-century plantation home
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‘County-lines gangs fuelling’ child slavery rise
There has been an eightfold increase in the number of child victims of modern slavery referred by local councils in
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Steep rise in British people forced to work as slaves
There has been a 58% rise in British nationals needing support after being rescued from slavery according to a new
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How history textbooks reflect America’s refusal to reckon with slavery
Textbooks have been slow to incorporate black humanity in their slavery narratives. And they still have a long way to
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Glasgow University’s ‘bold’ move to pay back slave trade profits
Glasgow University has agreed to raise and spend £20m in reparations after discovering it benefited by millions of pounds from
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Texas police apologise for horseback officers leading black man by rope
Texas police have apologised after an image of two white officers on horseback leading a handcuffed black man by a
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