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CINCINNATI -- The 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation will be Jan. 1, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wanted to tie President Abraham Lincoln's executive order freeing slaves to the State Department's efforts worldwide to raise awareness of contemporary slavery.
Today, an estimated 27 million people are ensnared in forced labor, sex trafficking and involuntary domestic servitude. The Department of State's first move in linking that to historic American slavery was to contact Cincinnati's National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
"The Freedom ...