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Remembering Harriet Tubman on International Women’s Day

Posted by Hayde Adams FitzPatrick on March 8, 2013

Early March includes two key dates that remind us of the importance of women in the struggle for human rights.

Today, March 8th is International Women’s Day, a global observance of the contributions made by women who are working to improve the political, social and economic status of women throughout the world.

Sunday, March 10th is the day that an inspiring American woman died, one of the bravest, selfless heroes of the anti-slavery movement: Harriet Tubman. This year read more >

Auction of Lincoln Chair and Documents to Benefit FTS

Posted by Terry FitzPatrick on February 12, 2013

These days, we’re used to the image of Abraham Lincoln sitting in a marble chair – at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. But another Lincoln chair is about to capture the public’s attention.

It’s the bentwood Hickory chair that Lincoln was sitting in when he learned that he was nominated to run for president. It’s being auctioned on eBay, along with a dozen documents handwritten and/or signed by Lincoln, and other documents signed by Frederick Douglass, William T. Sherman read more >

mtvU Tells “The Backstory” of Modern Slavery

Posted by Alethea Mohr on January 30, 2013

There are reasons young people end up in slavery today. We’re all vulnerable to harm, one way or another, at one point or another.

Traffickers spot these weaknesses, and pounce when they see an opening.

The campus video channel mtvU has just launched an amazing social media campaign that visualizes how young people can end up enslaved inside the United States.

The Backstory draws you in to become a central character in the storyline. First, you see provocative online ads, and read more >

Kevin Bales on ‘One-on-One’: U.S. Could be First Slave-Free Country

Posted by Anne Keehn on February 17, 2011

Kevin Bales was recently interviewed by María Hinojosa for her show “One-on-One.” They discuss modern-day slavery in the U.S., and refer to The Slave Next Door, the book Bales co-wrote on this topic (historian Ron Soodalter was the other co-author). The U.S. “could be the first slave free country in human history,” Bales says, “if we just decide to make that happen.”

The above video is a preview of “One-on-One” interview. The full show read more >

Attention Educators: How to Teach Kids About Modern Slavery

Posted by Anne Keehn on February 10, 2011

On Saturday, it will be Lincoln’s birthday. It is normal for American school children to learn that President Lincoln ended legalized slavery in the U.S. with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. It is not as usual for school children to learn that slavery persists to this day. In fact, it never ended.

In their book on modern slavery in the U.S. The Slave Next Door, Ron Soodalter and Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales read more >

EEOC says U.S. Labor Laws are ‘New Frontier’ in Fight Against Slavery

Posted by Anne Keehn on January 24, 2011

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) put out a press release saying the “new frontier” in labor trafficking will be employment discrimination laws.

In their book on slavery in the U.S., The Slave Next Door, Ron Soodalter and FTS President Kevin Bales wrote that U.S. laws don’t adequately protect major sectors of the labor force. The National Labor Relations Act, signed by President Roosevelt back in 1935 gave basic workers’ rights to read more >

Making Sense of Modern Slavery in U.S.

Posted by Anne Keehn on November 19, 2010

A great article on modern slavery in the U.S. came out this week on The Prisma website. Written by Carolina Cositore, the piece sites Free the Slaves (thanks for the shout out!), and refers to the book The Slave Next Door written by FTS President Kevin Bales and historian Ron Soodalter to illustrate the complex social and economic forces that allow slavery to exist—even thrive—in certain sectors of American industry.

A great read! Check it out here:

Whatever date read more >

NYT on Cincinnati’s Freedom Center

Posted by Anne Keehn on October 12, 2010

We recently reported on the first ever permanent museum exhibit on modern slavery. The exhibition is at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. And Free the Slaves is proud to say we are part of this groundbreaking show. Along with a handful of other leading anti-slavery organizations, FTS shared our decade’s worth of research and content with the museum. And FTS President Kevin Bales’ most recent book The Slave Next Door—co-written by historian Ron Soodalter—is read more >

Domestic Workers ‘Most Vulnerable’ to Slavery

Posted by Anne Keehn on October 1, 2010

U.S. Anti Trafficking Ambassador Luis CdeBaca gave an eloquent speech on modern slavery yesterday, at a special symposium titled “Slavery: Through the Eyes of George Washington”, hosted by Free the Slaves, Black Women United for Action and Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association in Mount Vernon, Virginia.

He said that of all the different kinds of slavery, “perhaps most vulnerable” are domestic workers: “Usually working outside the protections of prevailing labor laws—and sadly, that’s the case in the United States read more >

Ron Soodalter in HuffPo: Support California Supply Chain Bill

Posted by Anne Keehn on August 22, 2010

Ron Soodalter, co-author (with Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales) of The Slave Next Door has posted a piece on Huffington Post, calling for support of the California Transparency in Supply Chains act. This bill would require California companies that make over $100,0000 a year to post what they are doing to ensure that slavery is kept out of their supply chain. The Slave Next Door investigates slavery within the US, and posits that slavery never really read more >

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Posts Tagged ‘ron soodalter’

Remembering Harriet Tubman on International Women’s Day

Auction of Lincoln Chair and Documents to Benefit FTS

mtvU Tells “The Backstory” of Modern Slavery

Kevin Bales on ‘One-on-One’: U.S. Could be First Slave-Free Country

Attention Educators: How to Teach Kids About Modern Slavery

EEOC says U.S. Labor Laws are ‘New Frontier’ in Fight Against Slavery

Making Sense of Modern Slavery in U.S.

NYT on Cincinnati’s Freedom Center

Domestic Workers ‘Most Vulnerable’ to Slavery

Ron Soodalter in HuffPo: Support California Supply Chain Bill

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