The cost is $29.95 plus shipping and handling ($3.00). Checks or money orders can also be sent to: Pan-African Roots, 1247 E Street SE, Washington, DC 2003. Tax deductible donations to help us continue our research and work would be greatly appreciated.

• Mr. Ed Gillespie, Chairman of the Republican National Committee; President George W. Bush; Mr. Terry McAuliffe, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Senator John Kerry, Mr. Ralph Nader and other Presidential candidates; Secretary of State Colin Powell; Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; Treasury Secretary John Snow; Attorney General John Ashcroft; Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Mr. John Carlin of the National Archives and Records Administration.
• His Holiness John Paul II, the Spiritual Leader of the Roman Catholic Church and the Head of the Vatican; Brother Carlos Azpiroz Costa, OP of the Dominicans; Father General Peter-Hans Kolvenbach SJ, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus; Reverend Monsignor William P. Fay, General Secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Father Bradley M. Schaeffer, President of the U.S. Jesuit Conference.
• King Juan Carlos V of the Kingdom of Spain; Governor Jeb Bush of Florida; President Vicente Fox of Mexico; Governor Rick Perry of Texas; President Jacques Chirac of the French Republic; Governor Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana; Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain; Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada; Governor Mark Warner of Virginia; Governor James H. Douglas of Vermont; and Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois.

These comprehensive, historic and precedent setting Requests demand historical and current information and records that will:

• Bear witness to and prove, once and for all, that piracy, slavery and the slave-trade, including the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, and slave-like conditions and practices, including colonialism, segregation and apartheid, were and are illegal and prohibited, and were and are recognized as crimes against humanity.
• Help define the development and stages of the 569-year historical and continuing Maafa, and the unyielding and continuing struggle against it.
• Document who the victims of the Maafa were and are, who committed and continues to commit these crimes and how this unjust and illegal wealth was converted and transferred across generations.

We are confident that these requested records will prove, once and for all, that more than:

• 694,000 Africans were illegally held in slavery in the 13 original British colonies in the United States from 1619 to 1783, and that more than 3,208,393 Africans were still being illegally held in slavery in the states created out of these colonies in 1865.
• 900 Africans, and there descendants, were illegally held in slavery in Illinois from 1787 to 1845.
• 40,000 Africans were illegally held in slavery in the French Province of Louisiana on the eve of its "sale" in 1803, and that more than 557,772 Africans were still being illegally held in the 13 states that were created out of the Louisiana Province in 1865.
• 250,000 Africans were illegally trafficked into the United States through Cuba after the U.S. government prohibited participation in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in 1808.
• 15,000 Africans were illegally held in slavery in the Spanish Province of Florida on the eve of its "sale" in 1819, and that more than 61,000 Africans were still being illegally held in slavery in Florida in 1865.
• 10,000 Africans were illegally "removed" from Florida by the U.S. Army during the "Trail of Tears" in the 1820s and 1830s, and that more than 14,000 Africans were still being illegally held in slavery in Oklahoma in 1866.
• 3,000 Africans were illegally held in slavery in the Mexican Province of Texas on the eve of the declaration of its independence in 1835, and that more than 182,000 Africans were still being illegally held in Texas in 1865.

We publish these Requests as a model and educational Freedom of Information tool in the hope that hundreds of similar requests will be filed in every corner of the world. Slavery And The Slave Trade Were And Are Crimes Against Humanity! is the first in a series of Reparations books. Pan-African Roots is also in the process of developing a comprehensive Reparations Research website that will be launched in February 2005.

Bob Brown is an organizer, lecturer, research specialist and writer focusing on progressive and revolutionary movements and organizations fighting for global justice. His primary foci are the Pan-African, National Liberation, Black Power, Solidarity, Peace, Anti-Globalization, Anti-Repression, Reparations and Student Movements.

With 41-years of organizational experience and expertise, Bob is a former member of the Chicago Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, former Director of the Midwest Office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, co-founder and former member of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and a Midwest Organizer, and an organizer for the All-African People's Revolutionary Party. He has worked with and supported hundreds of progressive and revolutionary movements and organizations throughout Africa, the African Diaspora and the world. He was a Coordinator of Third World Outreach for the million-person Disarmament Demonstration at the United Nations in 1983 and the National Coordinator of Logistics and Operations and National Field Director of the 1995 Million Man March and Stay-at-Home Campaign. He is a member of the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (South Africa) and served as the National Director of its 2000 Local Government and 2004 Presidential election campaigns. Bob currently serves as co-director of Pan-African Roots and the Kwame Ture Work-Study Institute and Library.

As a lecturer during the past 37 years, Bob has traveled to and delivered presentations at hundreds of colleges and universities and scores of public and private schools, bookstores, churches, community centers and radio stations, and at thousands of meetings, conferences and demonstrations in at least 40 states within the United States. He co-coordinated from 1970 to 1988, the All-African People's Revolutionary Party's recruitment and fund raising drives, world-wide, which featured Kwame Ture (aka Stokely Carmichael).

Bob has traveled and made presentations to, and participated in meetings and demonstrations in Austria, Azania (South Africa), Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Egypt, England, Ethiopia, France, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Guinea, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Netherlands, Nigeria, Scotland, Senegal, St. Maarten, Switzerland, Trinidad and Zimbabwe.

As a research specialist and writer, Bob has authored and coordinated the publication and distribution of millions of movement leaflets, pamphlets, posters, and other educational materials. His current research projects include: a definitive political biography of and docudrama about Kwame Ture; comprehensive histories and analyses of the Black Power, Pan-African and Student Movements, the Black Panther Party and the All-African People's Revolutionary; and a major study of political repression, of the right and left, against the Black Power and Pan-African Movements, worldwide.

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