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Anti-Slavery International, works at local, national and international levels to eliminate all forms of slavery around the world Arizona League to End Regional Trafficking , a coalition representing partnerships with law enforcement, faith-based communities, nonprofit organizations, social service agencies, attorneys and concerned citizens
Anti-Slavery International, founded as the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1839, [1] [2] is an international non-governmental organisation, registered charity [3] and advocacy group, based in the United Kingdom. It is the world's oldest international human rights organisation, and works exclusively against slavery and related abuses ...
The American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG) is a non-profit coalition of abolitionist organizations that engages in political activism to abolish slavery in the world. It raises awareness of contemporary slavery, particularly among the chattel slaves of Mauritania and Sudan, raises funds to support relief and aid to enslaved populations and escaped former slaves, and lobbies government officials to ...
Program for the 29th anniversary of the Anti-Slavery Society. The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) was an abolitionist society in the United States. AASS formed in 1833 in response to the nullification crisis and the failures of existing anti-slavery organizations, such as the American Colonization Society. AASS formally dissolved in 1870.
Grace Forrest is the founding director of Walk Free, the Australian-based anti-slavery organization responsible for publishing the Global Slavery Index (GSI).. The GSI provides national estimates ...
April 4, 2021. — comprehensive list of abolitionist and anti-slavery activists and organizations in the United States, including the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Website includes historic biographies and anti-slavery timelines, bibliographies, etc. Works by American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society at LibriVox (public domain ...
She was born into a Quaker family in Essex and took active roles in the anti-slavery campaigns. Knight formed the Chelmsford Female Anti-Slavery Society. She also toured France, giving lectures on the immorality of slavery. [citation needed] The Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves was founded in Birmingham, England, on 8 ...
With the rise of the anti-slavery movement, Kentucky lawmakers revised the criminal code in 1830 to provide for a sentence of from two to 20 years confinement for those convicted of “Seducing or ...