Slavery, the system in which human beings are designated as property of other human beings, is the topic of this category.
Recommended Resources
Chronology on the History of Slavery
Compiled from various libraries and scholarly documents, this site consists of a timeline as well as the history of racism.
http://innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
Provides readers with a description and details about modern slavery, a map of the whereabouts of 27 million slaves in captivity today, and what the reader can do to help.
http://www.freetheslaves.net/Page.aspx?pid=183
Modern Slavery: People for Sale
Contains details about between 700,000 and 4,000,000 men, women, and children who were held against their wills, sold, transported, or bought in slavery in 2001 and the implications of those facts.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa061202a.htm
