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2. List of last survivors of American slavery - Wikipedia

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   He was featured in the local newspaper after his 103rd birthday and photographed. Two of his sons would also live to be nearly 100 years old. [14] Fountain Hughes: 1859: July 4, 1957 [citation needed] Former slave freed in 1865 after the American Civil War. Descendant of Betty Hemings, slave matriarch at Thomas Jefferson's plantation Monticello.

3. Slavery in the 21st century - Wikipedia

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   Contemporary slavery, also sometimes known as modern slavery or neo-slavery, refers to institutional slavery that continues to occur in present-day society. Estimates of the number of enslaved people today range from around 38 million [ 1 ] to 49.6 million, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition ...

4. For America's political elite, family links to slavery abound

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   In researching the genealogies of America’s political elite, a Reuters examination found that a fifth of the nation’s congressmen, living presidents, Supreme Court justices and governors are ...

5. Reparations for slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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   [12] [8] Some suggest that the U.S. prison system, starting with the convict lease system and continuing through the present-day government-owned corporation Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR), is a modern form of legal slavery that still primarily and disproportionately affects black populations and other minorities via the war on drugs and ...

6. Legacies of Slavery Still Shape Our Politics

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   Slavery shaped societies throughout the Americas. That matters in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

7. List of African-American abolitionists - Wikipedia

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   Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period; Slavery and military history during the Civil War; Reconstruction era. Politicians; Juneteenth; Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) Black power movement; Post–civil rights era; Aspects; Agriculture ...

8. Where does slavery still exist in 2014? - AOL

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   Slavery is still a very real and widespread problem. The slavery activity is often referred to as 'trafficking in persons' and is commonly measured by the global slavery index (GSI). The GSI in ...

9. Enslaved (TV series) - Wikipedia

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   Enslaved is a British-Canadian television documentary series, which premiered in 2020. [1] The series explores various aspects of the history of slavery in the United States, including the efforts of American actor Samuel L. Jackson to reconnect with his African heritage through DNA testing, diving projects to locate and recover shipwrecks in which at least two million African people captured ...