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"I'm a firm believer in the U.S. government apologizing because of all the ways in which the government supported and condoned and made slavery possible, " said Browne, who has also traveled to Ghana to see Cape Coast Castle.
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The divestment campaign directed against South African apartheid is, to many, a model for the current market activism aimed at the genocide-, slavery-, and terrorist-sponsoring Sudanese government and the foreign oil companies like Talisman whose investments are providing the Khartoum regime with economic life-support.
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The group encourages public dialogue about slavery by inviting government officials, representatives from citizen sector and white Tuareg leaders to participate in community meetings and public forums.
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Originalism is the Constitutional doctrine that the founding document should be construed today as it must have been understand at the time it was drafted regardless of the massive changes in government, society and culture since that time, including the abolition of slavery, an issue on which the founders compromised.
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Hell on Wheels, meanwhile, is taking on the aftermath of slavery, the eradication of the Indians, the corruption of the U.S. government, and the progress of the Industrial Revolution.
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