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	Slavery in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slavery in Canada was first practised by some aboriginal nations, who routinely captured slaves from neighbouring tribes as part of their accepted laws of war.
		However, chattel slavery (where slaves were the private property of their owners and their children were born into slavery as well) started with the European settlements, appearing soon after the colonies were founded in the early 1600s.
		Many of these slaves were prisoners taken in raids against the villages of the Fox nation, a tribe that was an ancient rival of the Miami People and their Algonquin allies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slavery_in_Canada (522 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Copyright Act of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Copyright Act of Canada is Canada's federal statute governing copyright law in Canada.
		The Act was first enacted in 1921 and much of the text was taken from the British Copyright Act of 1911.
		According to section 6 of the Act the copyright of a work lasts the life of the author plus 50 years from the end of the calendar year of death.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Copyright_Act_of_Canada (375 words)

	Slavery
		With his claims of a God ordained institution of slavery, coupled with the Black Republican intent to eliminate slavery, he painted a picture for the Maryland legislature of an isolated South infiltrated with Republican agents, whose sole intent was to "excite the slave to cut the throat of the master." (p.
		Slavery and race were clearly a central theme in the dividing of the nation and must be studied if a clear understanding to the cause is sought.
		Slavery, in Chase’s view, was protected within the states, but once a slave left that state, he became a free man. The point here is that the North did not focus on anti-slavery where the South was concerned, but rather towards free labor.
	www.mrsocialstudies.com /papers/slavery.htm (8500 words)

	Act Against Slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 Slavery Abolition Act abolished slavery in all parts of the British Empire.
		This page was last modified 18:13, 25 August 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Act_Against_Slavery (89 words)

	WWHP - American Anti-Slavery Society
		Massachusetts became the first state to end slavery when a judicial decision in 1783 interpreted the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 as having abolished slavery with the phrase, “all men are born free and equal.” Over the next few years legislation abolished slavery in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey.
		Slavery was prohibited in territory north of the Ohio River.
		Its strength grew with the passage of the controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise’s bar on slavery in western territories north of 36º 30’ latitude.
	www.wwhp.org /Resources/Slavery/aass.html (802 words)

	Mauritania: A future free from slavery. - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Despite the legal abolition of slavery in Mauritania twenty years ago, the government is yet to take practical steps ensure its abolition in practice, Amnesty International said today in its report Mauritania: a future free from slavery.
		The report, published on the eve of the 21st anniversary of the decree which officially abolished slavery, shows that human rights abuses related to slavery persist in Mauritania, although the government denies their existence.
		The issue of slavery in 21st century Mauritania is contentious.
	web.amnesty.org /ai.nsf/recent/AFR380052002!Open (836 words)

	Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (UK)
		The common law of England did not recognize anyone as a slave (although in Scotland, which does not have the common law, bondage still existed until the late eighteenth century, when it was abolished by legislation).
		Slavery, however, existed in a number of British colonies, principally in the West Indies.
		The Slavery Abolition Bill 1833 was passed by the House of Commons and by the House of Lords.
	www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com /huk-1833act.htm (421 words)

	Commend U.S. for New Anti-Slavery Initiatives
		It is disturbing to know that the scourge of modern-day slavery exists and thousands of persons are being trafficked into the United States for the purpose of forced labor and involuntary servitude.
		A key objective of the anti-slavery movement is to enlist government assistance in the fight against human bondage.
		Whenever government officials take a stand against slavery, we should let them know that their efforts do not go unnoticed, that the American people and the world at large appreciate their willingness to secure human rights for those currently enslaved.
	ga0.org /freedom_action/alert-description.html?alert_id=2001095 (496 words)

	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.
		With the abolishment of slavery, the planters were not as profitable and many plantations were shut down at alarming rate.
		Although slavery is abolished, inhumane acts, racism, child labor, discrimination and crimes against humanity continues throughout the world where the resources of defenceless countries in Africa, the Middle East and their people are being invaded and attacked by the powerful nations and corporations to seize resources and to control wealth that belongs to other nations.
	www.cariwave.com /1833_slavery_abol_act.htm (463 words)

	Slavery, Revolution, and the American Renaissance
		Although he spoke radically in advocating the dissolution of the Union, Garrison's nonviolent passion suggests in its hesitation to act, or to act violently, the ambivalence that pre-Civil War generations felt and expressed toward the legacy of the founding fathers.
		The failure to abolish slavery in the late eighteenth century left succeeding generations stymied, imprisoned by the Constitution's apparent protection of slavery, yet conscious of the implicit attack on it in the Declaration of Independence.
		As attempts to abolish slavery during and after the Revolution foundered on the questions of (human) property rights, vital economy, fear of insurrection and amalgamation, and the legacy of the fathers, the tentative identification between colonists and slaves collapsed.
	www.unl.edu /Price/dickinson/sundquist.html (6725 words)

	Slavery and the Making of America . The Slave Experience: Legal Rights & Gov't \| PBS
		The fourteenth amendment granted fls the privileges of citizenship, but instituted no means by which to ensure the protection of their rights.
		With violence against fls escalating and fl codes appearing across the South, the federal government recognized the need for a bill to defend the rights of fls.
		And be it further enacted, That upon all questions of law arising in any cause under the provisions of this act a final appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/slavery/experience/legal/docs7.html (183 words)

	The Founding Fathers and Slavery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented by all the southern patriots of the Revolution; by no one with deeper and more unalterable conviction than by the author of the Declaration himself [Jefferson].
		Slavery, or an absolute and unlimited power in the master over the life and fortune of the slave, is unauthorized by the common law....
		George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Slavery in Virginia It is ironic that two prominent Founding Fathers who owned slaves (Thomas Jefferson and George Washington) were both early–albeit unsuccessful–pioneers in the movement to end slavery in their State and in the nation.
	members.aol.com /endthewall/slavery.htm (3226 words)

	THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN CANADA
		The Act was inspired by Governor J. Simcoe and made Upper Canada (now Ontario) the first British Colony to legislate against slavery.
		Slavery had been the norm in Upper Canada for people of African ancestry since the beginning of the 17th Century.
		The Act did not free existing slaves, but did prohibit the import and assured that the children of slaves would be freed when they reached the age of twenty-five years.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadian_tourism/88887 (545 words)

	Indiana Territory
		The convention "petition to Congress dated December 28 requested the suspension [of Article VI for ten years] on the grounds that desirable settlers were forced to move west of the Mississippi [River] because they could not bring their slaves into Indiana Territory.
		Petitions on the slavery question continued to be sent to Congress from Indiana Territory.
		At the very moment that the progress of reason and general benevolence is consigning slavery to its merited destination.
	www.statelib.lib.in.us /www/ihb/publications/terrslavery.html (536 words)

	July 9 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1793 - Act Against Slavery passed in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
		1846 - By an Act of Congress, the Washington, DC area south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia.
		However the cathedral valuables were rescued by clergymen and the "Rose Window" was not affected.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/July_9 (1529 words)

	Roskilde Festival
		In 2006 we focused on modern slavery under the slogan ”Act against Slavery.” Because of poverty, millions of people all over the world are forced to live in slavery or under slave-like conditions.
		Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and it is impossible for a large part of its children and young people to get an education.
		In connection with this year’s focus, we arranged a humanitarian deposit collection where the audience could donate their bottle, can and glass deposits to the 600 voluntary deposit collectors at the festival area.
	www.roskilde-festival.dk /object.php?obj=d9000a (299 words)

	Teacher Resources - Collection - From Slavery to Freedom, 1822-1909
		Although he called for a peaceful approach to abolishing slavery, Garrison’s criticism of the Constitution as a pro-slavery document and his inclusion of women in the abolitionist movement prompted some members of the American Anti-Slavery Society to leave in 1839 and form the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.
		Slavery and the Territories: The Missouri Compromise and The Wilmot Proviso
		The question of allowing slavery in United States territories was revisited when the Mexican-American War raged from 1846 to 1848 and the Union acquired territories stretching from Texas to the Pacific Northwest.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/collections/slavery/history.html (4364 words)

	news - UN Slavery Day highlights plight of world's enslaved millions
		Millions of women, children and men around the world are living in slavery today.
		Human trafficking is the fastest growing form of slavery.
		Trafficking, like all forms of slavery, is illegal under international law, yet in many countries laws are not implemented and victims of trafficking are treated as criminals.
	www.antislavery.org /homepage/news/UNslaveryday011203.htm (341 words)

	slaveryaction
		Students will learn the ways in which one can act today against slavery as an individual and as part of an organization to mobilize power.
		CASMAS (Coalition Against Slavery in Mauritania And Sudan) http://members.aol.com/casmasalc/
		Most of us would imagine that with the exception of a few, forsaken places, slavery, too, has largely vanished from the world, yet author and activist Kevin Bales contends that more than 27 million people are trapped in similar or even more dire conditions of servitude today.
	www.msu.edu /user/dossant1/slaveryaction.htm (215 words)

	Emancipation Proclamation
		Slavery was "an unqualified evil to the Negro, the white man, and the State," said Abraham Lincoln in the 1850's.
		Most Republicans had become convinced by 1862 that the war against a slave holders' rebellion must become a war against slavery itself, and they put increasing pressure on Lincoln to proclaim an emancipation policy.
		By the summer of 1862, however, it was clear that he risked alienating the Republican half of his constituency if he did not act against slavery.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /00_01/CW/ts/ts1.htm (590 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Although Lincoln was morally opposed to slavery, he initially didn't want to abolish it because he feared that it would threaten Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky's membership to the Union, and also alienate some Northern Democrats.
		Even before the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, slavery in the South had already been weakened by the war because while plantation masters were away, slaves could escape more easily.
		Slavery was completely abolished in the US with the enactment of the 13th amendment to the US Constitution, in 1865.
	www.tjhsst.edu /~xyang/civilwar/emanproc45.txt (389 words)

	[No title]
		As the free fl population grew, their concern for the status of the African American became the center of the antislavery movement.
		The debate in Congress in 1819 and 1820 over whether Missouri should enter the Union as a slave or free state made it clear to the entire nation that the slavery issue was not going to simply evaporate in the American republic.
		The national argument over where slavery should be legal and where it would be prohibited spiraled the nation toward Civil War in 1861.
	www.udel.edu /soe/deal/EarlyActionsAgainstSlavery.doc (571 words)

	Slave Trade Act 1824 (UK)
		Slave Trade Act 1824 struck at insurance and mortgages of enterprises engaged in the slave trade.
		It did not abolish slavery, but only prohibited British ships being involved in the slave trade.
		Slave Trade Act 1824 permitted slaves to be transported and, as a consequence, slaves involved in the slave insurrection in Demerara (in what is now the Co-operative Republic of Guyana) were sentenced to penal servitude and transported to Australia.
	www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com /huk-1824act.htm (135 words)

	Anti-slavery Movement: Quakers
		It was as early as the 1600s that Quakers began their fight against slavery, and thus the beginning of the abolitionist movement.
		Quakerism in the United States, passed An Act for the Gradual Abolishment of Slavery.
		against slavery and had joined in the abolitionist movement.
	cghs.dade.k12.fl.us /slavery/anti-slavery_movement/quakers.htm (570 words)

	Phone-In \| Free the Slaves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Free the Slaves will act by awareness raising, supporting grassroots partners, removing slave labor from products, and educating policymakers to act against slavery.
		Although slavery is illegal everywhere, many governments choose to ignore, or even facilitate, slavery.
		Please raise the issue of slavery in the government and promote the end of slavery in those countries where it still exists.
	freetheslaves.net /action/phone-in (551 words)

	Campaigners Urge Bush to Push Other Countries to Act Against Slavery -- 07/09/2003
		Beth Herzfeld of the advocacy group Anti-Slavery International said it was significant that the president recognized the enormity of the crime of slavery, as well as the "persistence and courage" of victims who fought against slavery in the U.S. But she pointed out that the phenomenon had not ended.
		Last November, Bush signed the Sudan Peace Act, which was aimed at pushing the Islamist government in Khartoum to negotiate an end to the 21-year-long civil war.
		While modern-day slavery mostly persists in Africa, campaigners also report the existence of forms of slavery and forced or bonded labor in other countries, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates.
	www.cnsnews.com /ForeignBureaus/archive/200307/FOR20030709i.html (738 words)

	American Experience \| The Time of the Lincolns \| Slavery and Freedom
		Number one, it demonstrated to northerners, white northerners, who were not committed to the end of slavery, how horrendous an institution slavery was.
		This against the slave holders' propaganda that slavery was a benevolent institution and that fl people were happy as slaves.
		And demonstrated the slow leaching of slavery from the border states which over time would leave them isolated in a slave holding republic in the deep south.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/lincolns/slavery/vid_underground.html (375 words)

	Slave Trade Act: Insights on Act
		John Quincy Adams, persuaded to act as their attorney, argued that the Negroes be freed, on the ground that the slave trade was illegal both by American and Spanish law, and that mankind had a...
		all acts of disposal by sale or exchange of a slave acquired with a view to being sold or exchanged, and, in general, every act of trade or transport in slaves.
		After the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807 Sharp joined Thomas Clarkson and Thomas Fowell Buxton to form the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery.
	tradeact.muskact.com /slavetradeact (925 words)

	Index Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Born into a wealthy and aristocratic family from Charleston, the sisters were so against the slavery so evident all around them that they left their home and went to live in Philadelphia.
		In September, the letter was published in "The Liberator." She then wrote "An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South." This pamphlet encouraged Southern women to speak and act against slavery, which Angeline insisted was contrary to the rights given by God to Adam, and opposed to the Declaration of Independence.
		In 1835, the sisters persuaded their mother to give them their portion of the slaves, which they would inherit as part of the family estate, in order to set them free.
	www.knowitall.org /schistory/IndexResults.cfm?picRefs=C72 (230 words)

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