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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. Mae Louise Miller - Wikipedia

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   Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961.

5. 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.

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

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   The Reuters examination reveals how intimately tied America remains to the institution of slavery, including through the “people who make the laws that govern our country,” said Henry Louis ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. List of abolitionists - Wikipedia

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   Siddharth Kara author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2009) and Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (American) Rachel Lloyd (British) Rose Livingston former slave who worked to free slaves in New York City (American)