The event coincides with the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade and some of the participating students are travelling on a replica of the Amistad which is retracing the Slave Trade Route.
In the 18th century, it was home to one of the largest population of free blacks in the New World even as it became one of the centers of the global slave trade and home to some of its most violent abuses.
The ranks of the aggrieved are likely to continue swelling for some time: of the estimated 7.6m wartime slave labourers, the World Jewish Congress reckons that some 500, 000 are still alive.
The notorious Laogai prison system, on which my colleague Rep. Chris Smith has held hearings today, holds between six and eight million Chinese citizens captive and employed in slave-labor industries -- some 140 export industries that ship to 70 countries around the world.
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However, she added that the role some Scots played in the slave trade during a "shameful period" should also be acknowledged.
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There was also no sign on Tuesday of an accord on another issue at the conference -- African demands that former slave states make a formal apology for some 400 years of human trafficking up to the early 19th century, during which some 12 million people where shipped in chains to the Americas.
Nullification is to be opposed because some of its defenders were also slave owners and slavery apologists.
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Some reports find the government complicit in the slave trade of black Christians, who are purchased and forced to work as servants, laborers or sex slaves.
But it is the wrong prescription for the 30-odd lawsuits that have been lodged in California against Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi and Mitsui on behalf of many Asians and some Allied prisoners of war who were forced into slave labour during the second world war (see article).
Some of the earliest works, like those of Joshua Johnston, a freed slave born in 1765, depict white subjects almost exclusively.
Some portion of that (by no means all, nor even a majority) comes from those slave mines.
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Some were alleged to have been battered with rifle butts, stabbed with broken bottles and forced to do slave labour.
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