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Fake slaves con aid agencies in Sudanese liberation scam
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FOR the past seven years Christian groups have been 'buying'
slaves out of captivity in war-torn Sudan. Campaigners such as the
English peer, Baroness Caroline Cox, have paid 50 dollars a head to
buy their freedom from Arab traders.
The revival of the trade has touched the hearts - and wallets - of
millions, particularly in America where schoolchildren have given up
their lunch money to redeem Sudanese slaves.
But there is another, hidden, side to this seemingly noble
endeavour. According to aid workers, missionaries, and even the rebel
group that facilitates it, slave redemption in Sudan is ...
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Slave redemption money rewards the slaver.(Commentary)(Forum)
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; ...1863, declaring that "all persons held as slaves" in regions under Confederate control...rebelling states returned to the Union, their slaves would not be freed. The proclamation did...The decree encouraged more than 400,000 slaves to flee their masters and seek refuge...
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; The Selling and Breeding of American Slaves: Soul By Soul; Life Inside The Antebellum Slave Market IN 1808 THE importation of slaves from Africa to the United States was banned...profits by encouraging breeding among their slaves and selling the excess black labor to...
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Slaves, Poor Whites, and the Underground Economy of the Rural Carolinas
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Magazine article from: Anglican Journal
; ...emotional issue of slave redemption. Is it moral and...to buy freedom for slaves? Two Canadians are...has spoken against slave redemption; so have two other...food-bank worker. "Slave redemption is an 'in the meantime...
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