October 7, 2010 - Dr. Charles Jacobs, a co-founder and President of the American Anti-Slavery Group speaks at 2010 Sudan Freedom Walk rally in Washington DC.

September 17, 2010

The torture that blinded 14-year-old Ker Aleu Deng failed to kill his optimism and craving to learn. Enslaved by jihadi militiamen during Sudan's North-South civil war (1983-2005), Ker was hung upside down from a tree by his master, Zacharia Salih, who then rubbed chili peppers into his eyes. The master's motive was to prevent the boy from helping his abused mother – Zacharia's sex slave – escape from captivity. With the assistance of CSI, Ker has now started to memorize English words and is eager to receive a formal education.

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In the end of July, our partners from Christian Solidarity International returned from their latest slave liberation mission in Sudan.

July 30, 2010

Separated for nearly a yearly one year, freed slave Abuk Kiir is overjoyed to be reunited with her two missing children, Garang and Akoor. Five-year-old Garang and eight-year-old Akoor were just two of 305 Black African slaves who were liberated from Northern Sudanese masters this month and repatriated to Southern Sudan by CSI-supported slave retrievers.

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This article first appeared in the Jewish Advocate

July 30, 2010

By Charles Jacobs and Sasha Giller

Jews around the world are in a hot wrangle over a conversion bill in Israel’s Knesset that raises the exquisitely contentious question of “who’s a Jew?” According to the most-worried, if passed, the bill could give Orthodox rabbis power to nullify conversions performed by non-Orthodox rabbis outside Israel.  I read today that the bill is being put off until October. Whew!

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This article first appeared in The Jewish Advocate

The Imam and the Slaves

By Charles Jacobs

April 22, 2010

I was in Israel for Pesach, near Ashkelon - not all that far from where the rockets fall. At our Seder I was reminded, as I am each year at this time, of the Passover I spent in South Sudan 10 years ago, witnessing the emancipation of slaves. At the point where the Haggadah commands us to remember that we Jews were slaves in Egypt, I privately re-lived a stunning moment in Sudan: John Eibner of Christian Solidarity International stood in front of hundreds of black African women and children and explained that money had been paid to their masters and now they were free. I had never experienced - and don't expect to ever again - such cries and dances of joy.

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You know us-American Anti-Slavery Group -as the small, feisty set of abolitionists who broke the stunning story that modern day human bondage thrives around the globe.. You know us as the people who helped free slaves in Sudan and America. You know as those who helped former slaves educate tens of thousands about slavery. And you know us as the folks who successfully helped press the US government to stop the genocide and slave raids in South Sudan.

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