Banning of Slave Trade Bicentennial Commemorated in Philadelphia, April 10-12; Conference Presented by Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Library Company of Philadelphia.(Conference news)

AScribe Law News Service, March, 2008

Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology

ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two hundred years ago the slave trade in North America came to a screeching halt. Congress banned the practice and gave the early black freedom movement its first legal foothold in the long fight for equality.

The bicentennial of the ending of the slave trade in the United States will be marked in Philadelphia April 10-12 with a major international conference on slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. "Atlantic Emancipations" is presented by the Library Company of Philadelphia, Rochester Institute of Technology, Temple University and University of Pennsylvania's McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

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