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What is Juneteenth and why is it a holiday?

Thousands of enslaved people in Texas were ordered free two years after Emancipation Proclamation

The Independent UK

Commentary: Why we should all celebrate Juneteenth

Juneteenth is a day when generations of Black Americans have come together to celebrate freedom from slavery. It’s a day that, until recently, was not widely acknowledged outside of some Black communities.

Tribune News Service

C of E paid poor 18th-century clergy with ‘abominable’ slave trade funds

Justin Welby says he is ‘deeply sorry for links with transatlantic chattel slavery’

The Guardian - UK

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Rwanda refugee policy is like the rendition of slaves in the 1800s

Letters: Prof Julia O’Connell Davidson likens the government’s plans to deport asylum seekers to the forced returns facilitated by the Fugitive Slave Act in the US. Plus a letter from Mark Stephens

The Guardian - UK

Juneteenth: What is the historically important day and how did it start?

Thousands of enslaved people in Texas were ordered free two years after Emancipation Proclamation

The Independent UK

Commentary: ‘Reparations’ is another word for investing in America’s future

The new Juneteenth federal holiday celebrates the emancipation of enslaved people in our nation. That did not, however, emancipate Black people from the economic impact of their enslavement. Emancipation was followed by a failed Reconstruction, a century of Jim Crow, separate-but-(not)-equal, institutional racism and discrimination — the consequences of which…

Chicago Tribune

Patel seeks to curb modern slavery claims as Rwanda plan labelled ‘government by gimmick’

After cancellation of Africa flight, home secretary tries to stem slavery claims from refugees hoping to stay in UK

The Guardian - UK

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Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were speeches, sermons and shared meals, mostly held at Black churches, the safest places to have such celebrations.

The Conversation

Juneteenth: What is the historically important day and how did it start?

Thousands of enslaved people in Texas were ordered free two years after Emancipation Proclamation

The Independent UK

Believing the Big Lie won’t make it true

Some beliefs are not based on facts, and some people hold beliefs in spite of the facts.

Chicago Sun-Times

Juneteenth: What is the historically important day and how did it start?

Thousands of enslaved people in Texas were ordered free two years after Emancipation Proclamation

The Independent UK

Documents rediscovered: Sojourner Truth's fight to save son

Recently uncovered court documents from 1828 related to noted abolitionist Sojourner Truth will be on display after almost two centuries

The Independent UK

Yazidi women survivors of ISIL crimes yet to find justice

Iraqi Yazidi women survivors of ISIL sexual slavery still have no knowledge of what happened to their missing family.

Al Jazeera

Commentary: Forced prison labor continues to enslave Black Americans

As Juneteenth celebrations and paraphernalia begin to litter our social timelines, we must remember that slavery has yet to be truly abolished. To this day, in prisons and jails across the country, government agencies and corporations legally exploit forced prison labor thanks to an exception baked into the 13th Amendment…

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Scotland should address its historic role in slavery, says expert group

SCOTLAND should create a dedicated space to address its historic role in slavery and colonialism, an expert group has suggested.

Salon

Trumpism without Trump: Still dangerous

Trump's 2020 "Lost Cause" ideology has taught Republicans how to seize power — and they may not need him anymore

Daily Mirror

Priti Patel could rip up Tories' own modern slavery laws to force people to Rwanda

The Tory Home Secretary is said to be appointing a reviewer of the Modern Slavery Act - which Theresa May said was the 'great human rights issue of our time' - to prevent lawyers using it to stop deportation flights

AAP

Survivors fight back against trafficking

Modern slavery in its many forms is big business - from underage girls being forced into marriage or sold for the sex trade - but survivors are speaking up.

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Daily Record

Perthshire slave who fought for freedom will be honoured at new City Hall museum

Joseph Knight’s prolonged battle to secure his liberty was key to the abolition of slavery in Scotland and he will be remembered in a specially commissioned banner at the £26.5million attraction

Ballotpedia

Involuntary servitude on the ballot

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Newsroom.co.nz

Stopping slavery and exploitation needs you – trafficking investigator

Submissions to the Government's modern slavery and worker exploitation proposals close this week. A former human trafficking investigator says change needs all NZers to work together,

The Guardian - UK

‘I see this money as not mine’: the people giving away fortunes from slavery and fossil fuels

What would you do if your inherited wealth was built on slavery, fossil fuels or came at the price of neglect? Meet the guilty rich who want nothing to do with their money

Ballotpedia

Louisiana voters to decide in November on constitutional amendment to remove language that allows involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime

Louisiana voters will decide in November on a constitutional amendment that would remove language from the state constitution that allows involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. The amendment would also add language to say that the section of the constitution prohibiting slavery and involuntary servitude “does not apply to…

The Conversation

US moves to rename Army bases honoring Confederate generals who fought to defend slavery

For decades, nine U.S. Army bases have carried the names of men who fought against the U.S. Army – in a war waged to defend and perpetuate the slavery of people of African descent.

The Conversation

'I said no' – Nie's refusal and the troubling question of Pacific slavery in Australia

In 1881 Nie (also known as Nai), a Pacific Islander woman, walked off “Virginia” plantation, south of Maryborough, in the colony of Queensland.

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