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  • As a legislator Jefferson attempted to ban the importation of slaves to Virginia, gradually emancipate the slaves of that state and make the western territories of the country slave-free.

    Jefferson on the Indians, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Matt North explains why, at Sainsbury's, he decided to make all their bananas Fairtrade, while Jonathan Rosenthal surveys earlier "ethical shopping" movements, for example a Quaker initiative in 1790 to sell "slave-free cotton, fruit and vegetables".

    Et cetera: non-fiction roundup 2011

  • Matt North explains why, at Sainsbury's, he decided to make all their bananas Fairtrade, while Jonathan Rosenthal surveys earlier "ethical shopping" movements, for example a Quaker initiative in 1790 to sell "slave-free cotton, fruit and vegetables".

    Et cetera: non-fiction roundup 2011

  • In the early 1800s the country declared its independence from France and proclaimed itself "slave-free."

    John Perkins: The Tremor Felt Round the World 2010

  • He also took part during the 1850s in the bitter fighting between advocates of the Kansas Territory's entry into the Union as a slave-free state and "border ruffians," many of them pro-slavery Missourians.

    A Renegade and His Regrets 2010

  • CALLEBS (on camera): It's dolphin-safe, but human rights groups complain if you're buying something like this shrimp, there's no label it came slave-free.

    CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2009 2009

  • COOPER: So you're hoping that corporations will track that their products are slave-free, if you will, all the way down, not just through their manufacturing plants or outsourced manufacturing plants but through where they get the original material from?

    CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2009 2009

  • Every product sold in the United States needs to be established as being slave-free.

    CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2009 2009

  • But human rights critics complain if you're buying something like shrimp, there's no label that it came slave-free.

    CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2009 2009

  • But human rights critics complain if you're buying something like shrimp, there's no label that it came slave-free.

    CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2009 2009

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