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  2. White slave propaganda - Wikipedia

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    White slave propaganda was a kind of publicity, especially photograph and woodcuts, and also novels, articles, and popular lectures, about slaves who were biracial or white in appearance. [1] Their examples were used during and prior to the American Civil War to further the abolitionist cause and to raise money for the education of former slaves.

  3. White slavery - Wikipedia

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    In 1884, the Anglo-Egyptian Slave Trade Convention pressed upon Egypt by the British explicitly banned the sex slave trade of "white women" to slavery in Egypt; this law was particularly targeted against the import of white women (mainly from Caucasus and usually Circassians via the Circassian slave trade), which were the preferred choice for ...

  4. International Agreement for the suppression of the White ...

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    The International Agreement for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic (also known as the White Slave convention) [1] is a series of anti–human trafficking treaties, specifically aimed at the illegal trade of white people, the first of which was first negotiated in Paris in 1904. It was one of the first multilateral treaties to address ...

  5. Glasgow's slave trade past: New exhibition opens - AOL

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    A new permanent exhibition in Kelvingrove Museum has opened exploring Glasgow's links to slavery.

  6. Slavery on the Barbary Coast - Wikipedia

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    In comparison to North American and Caribbean slave narratives, the North African slave narratives in English were written by British and American white slaves captured (at sea or by Barbary pirates) and enslaved in North Africa in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

  7. Peter (enslaved man) - Wikipedia

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    Subject of photos of his scarred back, widely circulated during the American Civil War Peter ( fl. 1863 ) (also known as Gordon , or " Whipped Peter ", or " Poor Peter ") was an escaped American slave who was the subject of photographs documenting the extensive scarring of his back from whippings received in slavery.

  8. The Slave Market (Gérôme painting) - Wikipedia

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    The Slave Market (French: Le Marché d'esclaves) is an 1866 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It depicts a Middle Eastern or North African setting where a man inspects the teeth of a nude, female Abyssinian slave in the context of the Barbary slave trade.

  9. Teacher under fire for allegedly telling students to 'write ...

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    A Long Island middle school teacher is under fire for allegedly asking her students to "write something funny" underneath images of slaves. Last Friday, Darlene McCurty took to Facebook to ...