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Article: Silence on slavery
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 2, 1996
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`I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears,"
grieved Harriet Tubman, "and I would give every drop of blood in my
veins to free them."
How the great abolitionist heroine of the 19th century would weep
to learn that at the threshold of the 21st century, black chattel
slavery still exists in this world. More than weep: Harriet Tubman's
very heart would crack if she knew that almost no one, not even the
descendants of the American slaves for whose emancipation she fought
so desperately, seems to care.
Chattel slavery -- the buying and selling of human beings -- ended
in the West in the 19th century. In the East, especially in the
Arab-dominated nations of Sudan and Mauritania, ...