That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

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This film was produced in 1995 by HBO and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Transcript [Text on screen ... the end of a six-year nightmare through ghettos, deportations, slave-labor camps, ...

From his letters we learn a few things about Jews in the empire toward the year 600: that some were deeply involved in the slave trade ... Visitors to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and other ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

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Instead, consider planning a trip to Diamond Beach on the same day you stop by the Anse Cafard Slave Memorial. While you're there, be sure to take pictures of Diamond Rock in the distance.