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| | Slavery |
 | | Slavery existed in the United States until Abraham Lincoln became President. | | | All men are slaves; some, slaves of money; some, of chance; others are forced, either by mass opinion, or the threatening law, to act against their nature. | | | I am not surprised, Megillus, for the state of the Helots among the Lacedaemonians is of all Hellenic forms of slavery the most controverted and disputed about, some approving and some condemning it; there is less dispute about the slavery which exists among the Heracleots, who have subjugated the Mariandynians, and about the Thessalian Penestae. |
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http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Slavery.htm
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| | A Thirteenth Amendment Defense of the Violence Against Women Act |
| | Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. | | | There are legitimate state action arguments against the civil rights remedy notwithstanding Congress's claim that it had authority under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to enact a private remedy for public discrimination. | | | For example, Senator Cowan charged that the language of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 would grant women the right to make and enforce contracts, which would clearly be unconstitutional because the Thirteenth Amendment did no more than free those enslaved in the 1860s: |
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http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/fulltext/hear.htm
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| | Against All Odds |
| | But before Parliament could act, there were lengthy hearings. | | | Stephen Fuller, London agent for the Jamaican planters and a key figure in the pro-slavery lobby, wrote in bewilderment that the petitions flooding into Parliament were "stating no grievance or injury of any land or sort, affecting the Petitioners themselves." He was right to be startled. | | | West Indian slavery was by every measure far deadlier than slavery almost anywhere else. |
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http://www.mojones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_403.html
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| | Virtual Jamestown |
| | Provided also, That it shall and may be lawful, for any person, to sue for, and recover, any slave, or damage, for the detainer, trover, or conversion thereof, by action personal, as might have been done if this act had never been made. | | | Provided that where any negroe or mulattoe slave or slaves shall be killed in pursuance of this act, the owner or owners of such negro or mulatto slave shall be paid for such negro or mulatto slave four thousand pounds of tobacco by the publique. | | | To be recovered, in any court of record within this colony, according to the course of the common law, wherein the defendant shall not be admitted to plead in bar, any act or statute for limitation of actions. |
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http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/laws1.html
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| | July 9 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an act creating the | | | Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government. | | | 1793 - Act Against Slavery passes in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_9
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| | Crosswalk.com - Campaigners Urge Bush to Push Other Countries to Act Against Slavery |
| | Anti-Slavery International called on Washington to encourage all countries to sign, ratify and implement international slavery-related conventions - the U.N. Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and the Servitude, Forced Labor and Similar Institutions and Practices Convention. | | | The resolution carries penalties if Sudan is found to be not negotiating in good faith. | | | Nairobi, Kenya (CNSNews.com) - Anti-slavery campaigners are urging the United States to press other governments to sign and ratify conventions relating to modern-day slavery, following President Bush's remarks on the evils of that practice. |
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http://www.entertainment.crosswalk.com/news/1208895.html
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| | Encyclopedia: Act Against Slavery |
| | An Act to prevent the further introduction of SLAVES, and to limit the Term of Contracts for SERVITUDE within this Province. | | | The Act Against Slavery was an Act passed by Upper Canada on July 9, 1793 to prohibit slavery. | | | The Act remained in force until 1833 when the British Parliament's Emancipation Act abolished slavery in all parts of the British Empire. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Act-Against-Slavery
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| | The 1833 Slavery Abolition Act |
| | The Abolition of Slavery Act was passed on August 24th 1833 by the British Parliament which became law on August 1st 1834 where emancipation took place, meaning the act of slavery by the plantation owners against people who were enslaved was now abolished. | | | He fought against slavery and succeeded when slavery was abolished through out the British Empire. | | | With the abolishment of slavery, the planters were not as profitable and many plantations were shut down at alarming rate. |
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http://www.cariwave.com/1833_slavery_abol_act.htm
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| | Encyclopedia4U - 1793 - Encyclopedia Article |
| | July 9 - Act Against Slavery passed in Upper Canada. | | | March 5 - French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liege is recaptured. |
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