The students were shocked at the film footage of slave trading in Sudan. We formed a chapter. Last month in Boston, students at an inner city school heard about slavery in North Africa from an escaped slave. Mass. Students heard the same presentation. And their response was the same.
Abolitionism cuts across all divisions.
The movement against slavery is also taking hold in churches, on campuses, in city centers, within established human rights organizations, and in the halls of Congress. On May 11, in Boston s Faneuil Hall, the center of American abolitionism 150 years ago, Rev. Ray Hammond, a leader of Boston s black ministerial alliance, reclaimed that city s legacy to free slaves in North Africa. In February, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance, a day-long symposium on slavery in Sudan was broadcast around the world. Featured speakers were Senator Brownback, rescuers of slaves in Sudan, and an escaped slave. Just last week in San Francisco, students marched for freedom, walking 50 miles to the Pacific Ocean to raise money to free captives in Sudan.