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  2. Treatment of slaves in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Slave breeding was the attempt by a slave-owner to influence the reproduction of his slaves for profit. [48] It included forced sexual relations between male and female slaves, encouraging slave pregnancies, sexual relations between master and slave to produce slave children and favoring female slaves who had many children.

  3. Torture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Peter, a slave from Louisiana, photographed 1863, was whipped by his overseer Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana, photographed with instruments of torture used to punish slaves Further information: Treatment of slaves in the United States and Slave iron bit

  4. Freedom from Torture - Wikipedia

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    Freedom from Torture provides medical and psychological documentation of torture, a range of rehabilitation therapies, including psychotherapy, individual and family counselling, physiotherapy and complementary group work as well as practical advice and support. It trains health, legal and policy professionals throughout the UK to work with the ...

  5. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana—also exhibiting instruments of torture used to punish slaves (carte de visite by Charles Paxson, Metropolitan Museum of Art 2019.521) According to Adalberto Aguirre's research, 1,161 slaves were executed in the United States between the 1790s and 1850s. [196]

  6. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - Wikipedia

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    The rights can only be limited "in time of public emergency which threatens the life of the nation," [17] and even then no derogation is permitted from the rights to life, freedom from torture and slavery, the freedom from retrospective law, the right to personhood, and freedom of thought, conscience, religion and freedom from medical or ...

  7. End of slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    On June 19, 1865 — Juneteenth — U.S. Army general Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced General Order No. 3, proclaiming freedom for slaves in Texas, [26] which was the last state of the Confederacy with slavery. Juneteenth has been celebrated annually on June 19 ever since in various parts of the United States.

  8. Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.The amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18.

  9. List of civil rights leaders - Wikipedia

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    former slave, a journalist, poet and an autodidact lawyer who defended enslaved people and was among the earlier proponents of the abolitionist and republican movements in 19th-century Brazil. Victoria Woodhull: 1838 1927 United States: suffragette organizer, women's rights leader Frances Willard: 1839 1898 United States