v CONTENTS Reader’s Guide to Related Documents ix Preface xiii Introduction xvii 1. Antislavery Antecedents (16th–19th Centuries) 1 A Minute Against Slavery: The Germantown Petition (1688) 2 William Wilberforce’s Abolition Speech (1789) 6 A Federal Law Prohibiting Slave Trade (1820) 14 What to the Slave Is the 4th of July? (1852) 17 The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) 24 Amendment XIII (1865) 27 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1869) 29 Josephine Butler’s Contagious Disease Act Battles (1869–1886) 36 2. Early Visionaries (1900–1990) 43 The Suppression of White Slavery (1905) 44 The Mann Act (1910) 48 The Minimum Age Convention—Child Labour (1919) 51 The Convention Concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour (1930) 55 The Convention for the Suppression of the Traffi c in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949) 65 The International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women (1976) 72 Kathleen Barry’s Notes on Female Sexual Slavery (1979) 78
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