Harriet Tubman

They received reparations in 2022. Did it really change their lives?
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They received reparations in 2022. Did it really change their lives?

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Louis Weathers didn’t know what to think when he heard he was going to receive reparations for slavery. He had listened to people talking about reparations — people such as Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton — during the two decades he’d lived in Washington DC. But it was always couched as a demand, or an aspiration:…

John Brown’s Subterranean Pass-Way
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John Brown’s Subterranean Pass-Way

ByBilly Joe Cain

Read FERGUS M. BORDEWICH’s original post, from January 14th, 2006. JOHN BROWN believed that God himself had ordained him to bring an end to slavery. Achieving his goal hinged on a radical and deeply secret scheme: the establishment of an “Underground Pass-Way” that would extend the Underground Railroad more than a thousand miles southward through…

Project to house trafficking victims secures funding to move forward – The Columbus Dispatch
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Project to house trafficking victims secures funding to move forward – The Columbus Dispatch

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority announced Thursday that it had secured a $15.6 million financing plan that paves the way to begin construction on an affordable housing community to serve survivors of human trafficking. The project, named Harriet’s Hope for slave-turned-abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who helped others escape slavery, is set to be built on the…

Center for human trafficking survivors coming to Ohio
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Center for human trafficking survivors coming to Ohio

ByEyes on Trafficking News

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Housing for survivors of human trafficking is coming to Columbus in 2023. A 52-unit facility called Harriet’s Hope — after Harriet Tubman, the African American woman who rescued people from slavery in the 1800s — will be a first for Columbus, Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority said in a media release. CMHA…

Human Trafficking: Pathways to Prevention
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Human Trafficking: Pathways to Prevention

ByBilly Joe Cain

Recently, we participated in this online meeting. Here’s everything we received! Hope it’s useful for you. Friends, Thank you for your interest in Human Trafficking: Pathways to Prevention. This event was co-led by the HHS Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (HHS Partnership Center) and the Office of Trafficking in Persons within the Administration for Children and Families (contact info…