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Chocolate Slavery: Slave Labor in the Cocoa Industry

Chocolate bars have a dark, often untold story of human trafficking and child slavery. Cocoa plantations on the Ivory Coast use unpaid child labor to harvest the cocoa beans, often employing tactics such as physical abuse by overseers on plantations in West Africa.

98 comments    modern slavery chocolate slavery
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Thailand's Hypocrite Johns - Sex Tourists That Don't Pay For Sex

The way that westerners look at Thailand is often hypocritical, the media is buzzing with reports of sex slaves, human trafficking, and child prostitution. Often this is overstated, as in the case of the documentary film "Bangkok Girl", which has...

9 comments    sex thailand john
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How to Teach Social Justice Throughout the Year: Multicultural Books, Songs, Videos and Websites for Children

Often social justice is limited to the study of one person, movement or people. Too often children are exposed to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or a few Black inventors during February as their full social justice curriculum. According to John Dewey,...

3 comments    videos books websites
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Women in History-Harriet Tubman

A look at one of the very bravest women in history--Harriet Tubman. Her story is a true and vivid inspiration to us all.

27 comments    slavery susan b. anthony harriet
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The History Of Blacks In Nova Scotia Canada

Originally designated by the British and sought out by many Black Slaves as a place of refuge, Nova Scotia was not a friendly place for most AfRAkans however, through the resilience of the AfRAkan Spirit Blacks made it a home and are still proud residents today.

7 comments    black racism discrimination
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2012 And Slavery Still Exists. It's Called A J.O.B!

Article about a modern day story on slavery.

14 comments    job work freedom
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Reconstruction: Success or Failure?

It’s hard to imagine what it must have been like to be a slave freed at the end of the Civil War. Suddenly, your entire life was no longer dictated by the whims of your master. Family and friends would no longer be sold, never to be seen again....

5 comments    racism civil war civil rights
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Story of an hour Analysis

Story of an hour by Kate Chopin, a critical analysis

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Early Abolition Movement in America

Congress prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory in 1787 and abolished the slave trade with Africa in 1808, but that didn’t seem to help those slaves already in America. The increasing profitability of Southern slavery caused many to turn a...

6 comments    politics america lewis tappan
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Whale Slavery? The Case That Proves Our Constitutional Ideals Are Merely Hollow Words

Copyright © 2012 by William Darren Reder A recent news story brought the momentary focus of the world onto a lawsuit filed by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in San Diego on behalf of 5 killer whales at SeaWorld. The suit...

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