by Free the Slaves | Feb 23, 2015 | Slavery-Free Commerce, Take Action
Question: what’s an anti-slavery activist doing at an environmental sustainability conference for businesses? Answer: getting the same corporations that are helping to protect air, water, wildlife and natural resources around the globe to also protect the world’s most...
by Free the Slaves | Jan 30, 2015 | Advocacy, Slavery in the News
January 31st marks a monumental moment in the history of slavery in the United States. On that date 150 years ago, the House of Representatives passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. It abolished legal slavery in the United States. Within eight months, the...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Jan 21, 2015 | Ghana
How do you reach thousands of Ghanaian families to spread the word that child slavery is wrong and must be stopped? Get on the radio! That’s what our front-line partner group, Challenging Heights, has just begun to do. They’re broadcasting a live weekly program called...
by Maurice Middleberg | Jan 13, 2015 | Artists Against Slavery, Become an Abolitionist, Take Action
Last Friday evening, I had the privilege of attending the opening of a new art exhibit in Washington, Bought and Sold, by a longtime friend of Free the Slaves who has photographed our work around the world, Kay Chernush. Beneath the statistics about slavery and...
by Maurice Middleberg | Dec 31, 2014 | Become an Abolitionist, Take Action
As 2014 comes to a close, I’d like to connect you to the courageous Free the Slaves country directors and the communities in which they are carrying out groundbreaking work. They are your personal ambassadors of liberation. They have dedicated their lives to...
