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The Child’s Anti-Slavery Book [25] features the stories of several enslaved children. The book begins with a polemic against slavery directly aimed at juvenile readers, which calls upon the moral authority of the Bible, the Declaration of Independence [ 26 ] and the ‘ natural right to freedom’ [ 27 ] in its denunciation of slavery.
The organization runs three night care centers for children at risk, as well as shelter homes and a residential training center for girls rescued from the trafficking trade. Ratanak International, an organisation that rescues children from sexual slavery and then provides them with education, [15] rehabilitation, and safety [16]
Before the Revolutionary War, evangelical colonists were the primary advocates for the opposition to slavery and the slave trade, doing so on the basis of humanitarian ethics. Still, others such as James Oglethorpe , the founder of the colony of Georgia , also retained political motivations for the removal of slavery.
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 ...
Anthony Benezet (January 31, 1713 – May 3, 1784) was a French-born American abolitionist and teacher who was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.A prominent member of the abolitionist movement in North America, Benezet founded one of the world's first anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage.
The organization runs three night care centers for children at risk, as well as shelter homes and a residential training center for girls rescued from the trafficking trade. [16] Ratanak International, organisation that rescues children from sexual slavery and then provides them with education, [17] rehabilitation, and safety [18]
He does not include antislavery activists such as Abraham Lincoln or the Republican Party, which called for the gradual ending of slavery. [ 57 ] Benjamin Franklin , a slaveholder for much of his life, became a leading member of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery , the first recognized organization for abolitionists in the ...
They sometimes formed their own anti-slavery societies. Many women were horrified that, under slavery, women and children were taken away from their families. In 1824, Elizabeth Heyrick published a pamphlet titled Immediate not Gradual Abolition, in which she urged the immediate emancipation of slaves in the British colonies. [18]