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Group Lobbies to Have Slavery Recognized as Crime Against Humanity

   Lisa Bryant | Paris 13 May 2010

   Nearly  two centuries after the slave trade ended in much of Europe, a
   group  of  campaigners and historians is lobbying European and African
   governments to recognize the practice as a crime against humanity.
   In  2001,  France became the first and only European country to pass a