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In 1780, William Wilberforce began his campaign in the British Parliament to abolish the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Today, 200 years after the abolition of the slave trade, an estimated 12,000 people remain enslaved in northern Sudan, victims of the 23-year civil war.
Help us honor this bicentennial year by urging your representative in Congress to take meaningful action to put an end to slavery in Sudan. Contact your legislators and ask them to support Representative Chris Smith as he re-introduces the Eradication of Slavery in Sudan Act. If passed, this bill will create a commission that would investigate and end slavery in Sudan.
However, without cosponsorship, Representative Smith cannot reintroduce this crucial legislation. We need your help now.
Wilberforce and his fellow abolitionists collected 390,000 signatures to support their anti-slavery bill -- without the benefit of email. If each person who signs this petition tells 10 of their friends and family members, we can do the same. Will you help?
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