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When she was born into a family of slaves, nobody could have guessed that Mary Prince was going to help alter the course of history.
Mary was one of many Bermudians trapped in the cruel world of human captivity at the turn of the 19th Century — suffe...
DATE: Jan 23, 2007
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Tim Smith
Premier Dr. Ewart Brown has signed a petition calling for Governments across the globe to take action to stamp out modern day slavery.
The move comes after The Royal Gazette joined forces with Anti-Slavery International in our Break The Chains campai...
DATE: Jan 12, 2007
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Church leaders are calling for their congregations to back The Royal Gazette's drive to free 12 million modern day slaves.
The Reverend Malcolm Eve, the presiding elder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, (AME) said our Break The Chains campai...
DATE: Jan 08, 2007
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Tim Smith
The anti-slavery message championed by The Royal Gazette’s Break The Chains campaign has been echoed in the Archbishop of Canterbury’s New Year speech.
Dr. Rowan Williams told people that to drastically change the world for the better they must follo...
DATE: Jan 04, 2007
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Tim Smith
The Royal Gazette’s Break The Chains campaign has got off to a flying start — now we are urging our readers to help a worldwide anti-slavery petition smash the 15,000 mark.
Our campaign — which demands world leaders take action to help free at least ...
DATE: Dec 27, 2006
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An international charity tackling modern day slavery across all corners of the globe has backed The Royal Gazette’s Break The Chains campaign.
The Red Cross is running a number of programmes to help children and adults whose lives have been ripped ap...
DATE: Dec 22, 2006
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Support continues to stream in for our Break The Chains campaign.
Launched at the start of this week, we are calling on readers to sign an on-line petition demanding action from global leaders to help free at least 12 million modern day slaves.
Start...
DATE: Dec 07, 2006
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A direct descendant of UK slave emancipator William Wilberforce today threw his weight behind The Royal Gazette campaign to pursue Governments around the world to stamp out modern-day slavery.
The great-great-great-great grandson of Wilberforce — als...
DATE: Dec 04, 2006
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