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April 6, 2018


Title: Does Slavery Still Exist Today?
Topic: Slavery
Discussed by Bill Federer
with American Minute (www.AmericanMinute.com)


Part 1 of 4

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Various forms of slavery have existed throughout history – and even in modern society today. Bill Federer offers a look at slavery through the ages in today’s program.

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Questions/Issues Discussed:

At any time in history, has there ever been an abolitionist movement within the Islamic world to end slavery? Listen as Bill reveals how many Africans were sold to Arab Muslims.

FACT CHECK: Child slavery still exists today in West and Central Africa. How many children are sold each year to become slaves on farms, in homes, and used as sex slaves?

India has an extremely high rate of child slavery. Actually they call it “generational indebtedness”. Listen as Bill Federer explains what this means and how generations of families, including children, are forced to be slaves for a relative’s debt.



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Title: Part 2 of 4 - Does Slavery Still Exist Today?
Topic: Slavery
Discussed by Bill Federer
with American Minute (www.AmericanMinute.com)

Disclaimer: Use caution when listening to this segment around young children. Issues discussed might be upsetting or hard for little ones to understand.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Did the abolishment of slavery begin in the Judea-Christian Western Europe?

As Christianity spread, did slavery diminish?

Does the Koran forbid or encourage slavery?

Did Obama shackle college students into never-ending debt (generational indebtedness)?

Are thousands of southern Singh’s (an ethnic group in India) held in leg-irons due to unpaid debt?

Are thousands of young girls sold as sex-slaves in Thailand?

What about slave labor camps in North Korea?

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Title: Part 3 of 4 - Does Slavery Still Exist Today?
Topic: Slavery
Discussed by Bill Federer
with American Minute (www.AmericanMinute.com)

Disclaimer: Use caution when listening to this segment around young children. Issues discussed might be upsetting or hard for little ones to understand.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Who were some of the early abolitionists in America?

In the late 18th and early 19th century, who lead the anti-slavery movement in England?

Was Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation legally valid?

Did the Democrat or Republican Party vote in favor of freeing the slaves in America?

How long did the Democrats filibuster the Civil Rights Bill?

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Title: Part 4 of 4 - Does Slavery Still Exist Today?
Topic: Slavery
Discussed by Bill Federer
with American Minute (www.AmericanMinute.com)

Disclaimer: Use caution when listening to this segment around young children. Issues discussed might be upsetting or hard for little ones to understand.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Are blacks enslaved to the Democrat Party? Listen as Bill explains the Democrat’s switch from intimidation to entitlement…

Did a Democrat or Republican President have a segregated military?

Who invited the first black person to dine at the White House?

Did a Democrat or Republican President integrate public schools?

Who said this in 1964: “We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling of the races in our Southern states”?

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February 24, 2014


Title: Nearly All Cultures Practiced Slavery
Topic: Slavery
Discussed by Bill Federer
with American Minute (www.AmericanMinute.com)

Part 1 of 5

Nearly all ancient cultures made captives of war serve as slaves, such as in Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece, China, India, Africa, and Rome. In fact, over half of Rome's population were slaves.

One form of slavery was generational indebtedness, spread by Roman Emperor Diocletian. The Roman economy was so bad that people unable to pay their mortgages abandoned their properties, renounced their Roman citizenship, and went off to live with the barbarians.

Diocletian stimulus plan made it so people could never be free from their debts tying them and their children to the land in perpetuity, creating the feudal system.



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Title: Muslims and Slavery
Topic: Slavery
Discussed by Bill Federer
with American Minute (www.AmericanMinute.com)

Part 2 of 5

When Muslims conquered areas of Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, and the Mediterranean, over a million Europeans were forced into slavery.

An estimated 180 million Africans were forced into Muslim slavery in Africa alone.



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Title: Slavery in the New World
Topic: Slavery
Discussed by Bill Federer
with American Minute (www.AmericanMinute.com)

Part 3 of 5

Slavery in Cuba began earlier and lasted longer than anywhere else in the Americas. When Spain conquered the New World in the early 1500's, conquistadors deposed Indian government leaders and ruled in their stead. As Indian populations had been trained to obey government orders, they willingly obeyed their new leaders, even though it meant dying of forced labor in silver mines, such as Potosi.

Then, those wanting slave labor replaced them with Africans purchased from Muslim slave markets. A notorious trade triangle developed with Havana, Cuba, at its center. Some North American Indians were even sold into slavery in the West Indies.

In North America, Christian missionaries and movements, especially Quakers, Moravians, and Methodists, were a voice of conscience against slavery. Even so, many poor Europeans sold themselves as 'indentured servants', a temporary slavery for seven years in exchange for transportation to America.



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Title: African Slaves Brought to America
Topic: Slavery
Discussed by Bill Federer
with American Minute (www.AmericanMinute.com)

Part 4 of 5

The first African slaves were brought to North America on a Dutch ship to Virginia in 1619. A Portuguese ship from Sierra Leone sold 53 slaves to Spanish Planters on the Cuban ship Amistad. On July 1, 1839, the Africans seized the ship and demanded to be sailed back to Africa. Instead, the captain misdirected the ship to Long Island, NY, where the slaves were arrested.

The Amistad case went to the Supreme Court, with 74-year-old former President, John Quincy Adams, defending the Africans. Adams stated, "By the blessing of God, I will argue the case before the Supreme Court," and wrote in his journal, October 1840: "I implore the mercy of God to control my temper, to enlighten my soul, and to give me utterance, that I may prove myself in every respect equal to the task."

Francis Scott Key offered Adams legal advice. Adams shook hands with Africans Cinque and Grabeau, saying: "God willing, we will make you free." Wining the case, John Quincy Adams, known as "Old Man Eloquent," had argued:  "The moment you come to the Declaration of Independence, that every man has a right to life and liberty, an inalienable right, this case is decided. I ask nothing more in behalf of these unfortunate men than this Declaration."




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Title: Yellow Press Journalism
Topic: Slavery
Discussed by Bill Federer
with American Minute (www.AmericanMinute.com)

Part 5 of 5

Yellow Press journalism excited the American public, who demanded President William McKinley intervene in the Amistad case.

The U.S.S. Maine was sent to Havana, and on February 15, 1898, it blew up in the harbor under suspicious conditions, thus beginning the Spanish-American War.

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