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	<title>Freedom Blog &#187; Slavery</title>
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		<title>The Role of Africans in Slavery Remains Controversial</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/04/role-africans-slavery-remains-controversial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most frequently asked questions from visitors to the Freedom Center is &#8220;who was responsible for the slave trade?&#8221; The answer &#8212; often little understood or even acknowledged &#8212; is that Africans themselves were the enslavers of millions. This unsettling fact causes great unease, especially among those who continue to advocate the payment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to Oral Statements of Former Slaves</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/02/recording-former-slaves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Library of Congress is making available more than seven hours of transcribed interviews with former slaves recorded in between 1932 and 1975.  Some of the interviews have never been heard publicly before. For anyone doing historical research about American slavery or the experience of African Americans in the century after the Civil War, these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Year&#8217;s Resolution: Let Freedom Ring</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/01/years-resolution-freedom-ring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Brandt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anne Frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discovery Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohandas Ghandi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oppression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Promethean]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=1791</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As 2010 begins the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and I invite you to join us in our New Year&#8217;s resolution to let freedom ring, across our nation and around the globe. &#8220;Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.&#8221; - Martin Luther King, Jr.- The Freedom Center is a few steps from the banks of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Brown: Martyr or Madman?</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/12/john-brown-martyr-madman/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/12/john-brown-martyr-madman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abolition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[execution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 2 is International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.  It&#8217;s also marks the 150th anniversary of the execution of one of history&#8217;s most complex characters: John Brown, who was &#8212; to say the least &#8212; an extreme abolitionist. Brown is most remembered for his abortive attempt to take control of the federal arsenal at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eric Proffitt is Running for the Rescue</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/08/eric-proffitt-running-rescue/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/08/eric-proffitt-running-rescue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Brandt</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=1486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On August 1, chained from head to toe, Eric Proffitt began his 42 day quest, Run for the Rescue, and will run through major cities in the United States and United Kingdom. From the Statue of Liberty in New York to the graveside of abolitionist hero William Wilberforce in London, Eric will not only carry heavy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering an Historian Who Changed Perceptions of Slavery</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/07/remembering-historian-changed-perceptions-slavery/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/07/remembering-historian-changed-perceptions-slavery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Stampp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reconstruction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=1425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kenneth Stampp, a revered but relatively unknown (to the general public) historian, passed away at age 96 this week. As his obituary in the NY Times amply demonstrates, Stampp refused to accept and prolong the commonly accepted wisdom of America&#8217;s long interlude with slavery, and by being so obstinate, changed our understanding of the &#8220;peculiar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Senate Offers Formal Apology for Slavery</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/06/senate-offers-formal-apology-slavery/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/06/senate-offers-formal-apology-slavery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Juneteenth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=1400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Senate approved a fiercely worded resolution Thursday formally apologizing for the &#8220;fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery&#8221; of African-Americans. The unanimous voice vote came five months after Barack Obama became the first black US president, and ahead of the June 19 &#8220;Juneteenth&#8221; celebration of the emancipation of African-Americans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Book Portrays Slavery in America Today</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/05/book-portrays-slavery-america-today/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/05/book-portrays-slavery-america-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 18:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soodalter]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=1285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today,&#8221; a new book on contemporary slavery in the United States, appears this month, published by the University of California Press. The book is co-authored by Ron Soodalter and Kevin Bales. The Freedom Center&#8217;s Paul Bernish recently conducted a phone interview with Soodalter about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genealogy… moving forward into the past!</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/05/genealogymoving/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/05/genealogymoving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 13:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margie Schwieterman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genealogy Notebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancestores]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Genealogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=1268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Freedom Center&#8217;s New Genealogy Notebook! Our genealogy notebook is designed for YOU. Your questions and comments will drive our discussions. The Family Search Center relies on volunteers. These volunteers serve visitors from all across the United States helping them to begin their genealogical journey. However, since most visitors are with us only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2008/12/transatlantic-slave-trade-database/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2008/12/transatlantic-slave-trade-database/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/?p=786</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database is the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world. The Voyages website itself is the product of two years of development by a multi-disciplinary team of historians, librarians, curriculum specialists, cartographers, computer programmers, and web [...]]]></description>
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