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Barack Obama: Slavery tears at our social fabric, fuels violence and organized crime, and debases our common humanity.

On the recordDecember 30, 2013
Slavery tears at our social fabric, fuels violence and organized crime, and debases our common humanity.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Proclamation 9074—National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month

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