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Category: Political -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pity the poor Black Congressional Caucus (CBC), its members must be so frustrated over not being able to blame a White Republican President for the mess being reported out of Haiti. A just released Pan American Development Foundation’s report brings news that “at least 225,000 children in Haiti’s have been sold into slavery as unpaid household servants.” This number was “far more than previously thought.” Question: If this is more than “previously thought,” why haven’t these very concerned Pan American Development Foundation liberals raised this issue and done something about it already? Answer: Their job is to...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Poverty has forced at least 225,000 children in Haiti's cities into slavery as unpaid household servants, far more than previously thought, a report said Tuesday. The Pan American Development Foundation's report also said some of those children — mostly young girls — suffer sexual, psychological and physical abuse while toiling in extreme hardship. The report recommends Haiti's government and international donors focus efforts on educating the poor and expanding social services such as shelters for girls, who make up an estimated two-thirds of the child servant population. Young servants are known as "restavek" — Haitian Creole for...

Benin official offers apology for nation's role in slavery MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- An official of the Republic of Benin has offered an apology to students at a Mobile school for his country's participation in the slave trade. In 1859, Benin, on Africa's west coast, sold 116 slaves to a Mobile sailor aboard a ship called the Clotilde - the last slave ship to arrive in America. Slavery was still legal in the United States at that time, but importing slaves was not. Simon Pierre Adovelande apologized Tuesday to the students at the Mobile County Training School. Thirty of...