AASG Videos

Watch Dumisani Washington, CEO of The Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (IBSI) debunk the false claims regarding Jewish involvement with the slave trade and expose the truth behind the attempted cover up.

Watch AASG president Dr. Charles Jacobs explain why Mauritania being admitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council is an atrocity typical of the “human rights community.”

Watch the American Anti-Slavery Group’s research director, Ben Poser, speak at the Massachusetts State House on the persecution and enslavement of Christians in Africa.

Watch our video about how Louis Farrakhan influenced Howard University to go out of its way to “not take a position” on whether slavery existed in Africa.

Watch Prof. Julius Coles, former director of Howard University’s Ralph J. Bunche International Center, go out of his way to “not take a position” on whether black slavery existed in Africa.

Watch the heroic late journalist and anti-slavery crusader Sam Cotton (1947 – 2003) respond to a sympathetic black student asking how black Americans should respond to fellow blacks who believe Farrakhan’s denials of slavery. From the American Anti-Slavery Group’s March 13, 1996, forum at Howard University.

Watch Dr. Augustine Abulu Lado, a black Sudanese academic and Professor of Consumer and Organizational Studies at Clarkson University, respond to Farrakhan’s denial of slavery in Sudan. From the American Anti-Slavery Group’s March 13, 1996, forum at Howard University.

Watch black Mauritanian Muslim Mohamed Nacir Athié respond to Farrakhan’s cowardly denial of slavery. From the American Anti-Slavery Group’s March 13, 1996, forum at Howard University.

Watch Sam Cotton take on an Arab Muslim Sudanese graduate student who was still not convinced that his fellow Arabs own black slaves in Sudan.

Watch this exclusive footage, obtained from an off-air VHS home recording of a December 10, 1996, Dateline NBC investigation into the Sudanese slave trade.

Watch CBN reporter Lee Webb tell the nation how Farrakhan callously abandoned his enslaved black brethren.

Watch Pastor Pat Robertson, the host of The 700 Club, in the same segment, expose the moral hypocrisy of Farrakhan’s mission — to convince black Americans that Islam is their path to freedom — and condemn him as a “charlatan” and shill for Arab money.

Watch the very first of only a handful of segments TV media has done on slavery in Mauritania. Here, Sam Cotton is interviewed by the defunct New York local news station UPN 9 News about his undercover mission to document Mauritanian slavery. Cotton returned to New York in January of 1996, and this well-produced, un-dated segment aired later that month in two parts over two consecutive evenings.

Watch Sam Cotton’s opening testimony on slavery in Mauritania before a hearing of the House Foreign Relations Committee’s subcommittee for Africa. Cotton spoke at the American Anti-Slavery Group’s first of several appearances on Capitol Hill on March 13, 1996 (just hours after the Howard forum).

Watch a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus and House Africa Subcommittee, the late Democratic California congressman Mervyn Dymally (1926 – 2012), deny that slavery still exists in Mauritania. Dymally was a paid “legislative advocate” (lobbyist) for the Mauritanian government, bought with a yearly $120,000 salary. His testimony sought to refute that of Cotton and the American Anti-Slavery Group at the same March 13, 1996, House hearing.

Watch rare footage from a 1995 human rights investigation in Sudan carried out by former Brown University professor of medicine Dr. Kevin Vigilante. In the video, Dr. Vigilante documents the horrors of the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983 – 2005) but, most importantly, the enslavement of black Christian children by Arab Muslim militia gangs.

Watch the first segment of a two-part series produced by CBS Evening News with Dan Rather on the slave trade in the Sudan. This program, depicting the efforts of Dr. John Eibner of Christian Solidarity International to free black Sudanese slaves, aired February 1, 1999.

Watch the second segment of CBS Evening News with Dan Rather’s two-part series on slavery in the Sudan. This piece, broadcast on February 2, 1999, celebrates the inspiring efforts of an Aurora, Colorado, elementary school teacher and her fourth-grade class to raise money for Christian Solidarity International’s slave buyback campaign.

Watch a CBS 2 New York segment from October 4, 1999, detailing the American Anti-Slavery Group’s lobbying effort to convince the city of New York to no longer invest public employee pensions in the now-defunct Canadian oil company Talisman Energy, which had interests in Sudan. As a direct result of the public outcry from organizations like the AASG, Talisman finally sold all of its shares in Sudanese oil in 2003 before folding in 2015.

Watch the American Anti-Slavery Group’s co-founder and president, Dr. Charles Jacobs, give his acceptance speech for the Boston Freedom Award, an honor he was given on September 18, 2000, by Boston’s late mayor Thomas Menino and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s widow Coretta Scott King for helping to liberate tens of thousands of black Sudanese slaves.

Watch this September 24, 2000, WBZ 4 News Conference segment of the AASG’s Dr. Charles Jacobs bringing awareness to the plight of Sudanese slaves in the wake of receiving the Boston Freedom Award from Coretta Scott King the previous week.

Watch Dr. Charles Jacobs testify before a special hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 28, 2000, to convince the lame duck Clinton administration to take the Sudanese slavery crisis seriously.

Watch Francis Buk, an escaped Sudanese Christian slave, tell the Senate Foreign Relations Committee his heartbreaking story of childhood abduction, orphaning, enslavement, beatings, and racial abuse at the hands of his Arab master.

Watch highlights from a protest the American Anti-Slavery Group helped stage outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C

Watch an extraordinary convergence of circumstance and faith, in which the AASG’s president, Dr. Charles Jacobs, was present to witness the liberation of 175 black Sudanese slaves by Christian Solidarity International on Passover, the Jewish festival of liberty, on March 23, 2011.