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Examines the history, land, people, economy, government, culture, arts, and recreation of New Brunswick.

Traces the practice of slavery throughout the millennia, drawing on historical narratives, personal accounts, and visual sources to cover such examples as the ancient Sumerian practice of selling impoverished children into bondage and the oppression of ninth-century Zanj salt mar...

From the early days of the antislavery movement to today, profiles fourteen women abolitionists who took extraordinary personal risks in their struggle to end slavery.

When they were too impoverished to raise their families, ancient Sumerians sold their children into bondage. Slave women in Rome faced never-ending household drudgery. The ninth-century Zanj were transported from East Africa to work the salt marshes of Iraq. Cotton pickers worked...