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Posted: 6/19/2013 7:34:06 AM EST
In this Nov. 23, 2012 photo, Osaka Mayor and co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party Toru Hashimoto, foreground center, along with Shingo Nishimura, foreground right, a former member of the House of Representatives, waves to supporters during their party's election campaign in Sakai, Osaka prefecture, western Japan. Hashimoto apologized after saying, and later tweeting, that sex slavery by Japan’s Imperial Army before and during World War II was a “necessary” wartime evil and suggesting that the U.S. military patronize adult entertainment to help reduce sex crimes committed by American troops. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
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Posted: 6/19/2013 7:34:06 AM EST
FILE - In this May 27, 2013 photo, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto listens to a reporter's question during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. Hashimoto earlier said and tweeted that sex slavery by Japan’s Imperial Army before and during World War II was a “necessary” wartime evil. He also used Twitter to post his suggestion that the U.S. military patronize adult entertainment to help reduce sex crimes committed by American troops. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)
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Posted: 6/12/2013 1:29:12 PM EST
This April 4, 2013 photo provided by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business shows Nobel Prize-winning University of Chicago economist Robert Fogel at his home in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. Fogel, whose work on the economics of slavery triggered a furious national debate, died Tuesday, June 11, 2013, after a brief illness. He was 86. Fogel wrote 22 books, the last one published in April. He first came to prominence in academic circles in the 1960s when he concluded that railroads weren't as important to the nation's economy as was widely believed. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Dustin Whitehead)
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Posted: 6/12/2013 1:29:12 PM EST
This April 4, 2013 photo provided by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business shows Nobel Prize-winning University of Chicago economist Robert Fogel at his home in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. Fogel, whose work on the economics of slavery triggered a furious national debate, died Tuesday, June 11, 2013, after a brief illness. He was 86. Fogel wrote 22 books, the last one published in April. He first came to prominence in academic circles in the 1960s when he concluded that railroads weren't as important to the nation's economy as was widely believed. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Dustin Whitehead)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 9:50:07 AM EST
FILE - In this Friday, March 1, 2013 file photo, a South Korean protester playing the role of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe kneels down on a Japanese flag during a rally demanding full compensation and apology for wartime sex slaves from Japanese government and criticizing the Japanese government's recent claim over the disputed islets called Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. Japan has acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its imperial troops coerced Asian women into sexual slavery before and during World War II. A parliamentary statement signed Tuesday, May 7 by Abe acknowledged a document produced by a postwar international military tribunal containing a Japanese soldier's testimony about abducting Chinese women as military sex slaves. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 9:50:07 AM EST
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gives an answer at an Upper House Budget Committee meeting of Parliament in Tokyo Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Japan acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its imperial troops coerced Asian women into sexual slavery before and during World War II. A parliamentary statement signed Tuesday by Abe acknowledged the government had a set of documents produced by a postwar international military tribunal containing testimony by Japanese soldiers about abducting Chinese women as military sex slaves. At left is Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
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Posted: 3/25/2013 10:53:35 AM EST
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men burn leavened items in a final preparation before the Passover holiday in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish town of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, March. 25, 2013. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foodstuffs during the Passover holiday that celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites' escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Posted: 2/22/2013 4:33:26 PM EST
FILE - In this July 30, 2003 file photo, Emory University president James W. Wagner speaks during a press conference at the Emory Conference Center Hotel in Atlanta, Ga. Wagner has come under criticism for using the three-fifths compromise on slavery from U.S. history for his essay about the value of finding common ground in politics and on campus, published in the Winter 2013 issue of Emory Magazine. (AP Photo/Barry Williams, File)
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Posted: 2/8/2013 12:53:32 PM EST
US actress Mira Sorvino, a UN Goodwill Ambassador to combat human trafficking for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, speaks during an interview by the Associated Press at the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. “I love acting and that is my job right now,” Sorvino says. At the same time, she describes her advocacy against human trafficking and modern-day slavery as “my calling,” and so important that “in a decade or so, I wouldn't mind just switching to a career in humanitarian causes.” (AP Photo/Alexander Mueller)
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Posted: 2/8/2013 12:53:32 PM EST
US actress Mira Sorvino, a UN Goodwill Ambassador to combat human trafficking for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, speaks during an interview by the Associated Press at the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. “I love acting and that is my job right now,” Sorvino says. At the same time, she describes her advocacy against human trafficking and modern-day slavery as “my calling,” and so important that “in a decade or so, I wouldn't mind just switching to a career in humanitarian causes.” (AP Photo/Alexander Mueller)
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Posted: 2/8/2013 12:53:32 PM EST
UNODC's Executive Director Yury Fedotv, left, and US actress Mira Sorvino, a UN Goodwill Ambassador to combat human trafficking for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, attend an interview by the Associated Press at the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. “I love acting and that is my job right now,” Sorvino says. At the same time, she describes her advocacy against human trafficking and modern-day slavery as “my calling,” and so important that “in a decade or so, I wouldn't mind just switching to a career in humanitarian causes.” (AP Photo/Alexander Mueller)
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Posted: 2/8/2013 12:53:32 PM EST
US actress Mira Sorvino, a UN Goodwill Ambassador to combat human trafficking for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, speaks during an interview by the Associated Press at the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. “I love acting and that is my job right now,” Sorvino says. At the same time, she describes her advocacy against human trafficking and modern-day slavery as “my calling,” and so important that “in a decade or so, I wouldn't mind just switching to a career in humanitarian causes.” (AP Photo/Alexander Mueller)
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Posted: 2/8/2013 12:53:32 PM EST
UNODC's Executive Director Yury Fedotv, left, and US actress Mira Sorvino, a UN Goodwill Ambassador to combat human trafficking for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, attend an interview by the Associated Press at the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. “I love acting and that is my job right now,” Sorvino says. At the same time, she describes her advocacy against human trafficking and modern-day slavery as “my calling,” and so important that “in a decade or so, I wouldn't mind just switching to a career in humanitarian causes.” (AP Photo/Alexander Mueller)
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Posted: 1/30/2013 4:38:26 PM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2009 file photo, a Secret Service agent stands watch while President-elect Barack Obama, not shown, visits the Lincoln Memorial with his family, none visible, in Washington. The 16th president was one of America's most admired, rising from humble roots in a frontier cabin to become a self-educated lawyer and brilliant politician. As president, he ended slavery by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and preserved the nation despite the Civil War. The story of his assassination is one of the best-known chapters of American history. Many museums are offering special exhibits for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. Other sites can be visited any time: You can see the box at Ford's Theatre where Lincoln was shot, stand in the room of the house where he died, walk up the steps of the cottage where he summered, and join the nearly 6 million people who visit the Lincoln Memorial each year. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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Posted: 12/10/2012 3:28:23 PM EST
FILE - This undated publicity image provided by Universal Pictures shows Isabelle Allen, left, as a young Cosette and Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean in a scene from the motion-picture adaptation of "Les Misérables,” directed by Tom Hooper. AFI's top-10 announced Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, include Ben Affleck's Iran hostage-crisis drama "Argo;" Benh Zeitlin's low-budget hit "Beasts of the Southern Wild;" Quentin Tarantino's slavery saga "Django Unchained;" Tom Hooper's Victor Hugo musical "Les Miserables;" Ang Lee's shipwreck story "Life of Pi;" Wes Anderson's first-love romance "Moonrise Kingdom;" and David O. Russell's misfit love story "Silver Linings Playbook," among other films. (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Laurie Sparham, File)
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Posted: 8/17/2012 3:48:21 PM EST
A statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis is seen at Beauvoir House, Jefferson Davis' historic home, in Biloxi, Miss., Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War can be an angst-filled task in Mississippi, with its long history of racial strife and a state flag that still bears the Confederate battle emblem. Well-intentioned Mississippians who work for racial reconciliation say slavery was morally indefensible. Still, some speak in hushed tones as they confess a certain admiration for the valor of Confederate troops who fought for what was, to them, the hallowed ground of home and country. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Posted: 8/17/2012 3:48:21 PM EST
A confederate flag is seen at a tombstone on the cemetery at Beauvoir House, Jefferson Davis' historic home, in Biloxi, Miss., Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War can be an angst-filled task in Mississippi, with its long history of racial strife and a state flag that still bears the Confederate battle emblem. Well-intentioned Mississippians who work for racial reconciliation say slavery was morally indefensible. Still, some speak in hushed tones as they confess a certain admiration for the valor of Confederate troops who fought for what was, to them, the hallowed ground of home and country. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Posted: 7/14/2012 8:58:27 PM EST
This Monday, July 9, 2012 photo shows a stone wall built during the slavery era in Lebanon, Tenn. The land was once part of a plantation where Jordan Anderson was a slave to Col. Patrick Henry Anderson. The former slave who was freed by Union troops in 1864, spent his remaining 40 years in Ohio. He lived quietly and likely would have been forgotten, if not for a remarkable letter to his former master published in a Cincinnati newspaper shortly after the Civil War. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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Posted: 7/14/2012 8:58:27 PM EST
In this Monday, July 9, 2012 photo, a stone wall built during the slavery era stands next to a spring in Lebanon, Tenn. The land was once part of a plantation where Jordan Anderson was a slave to Col. Patrick Henry Anderson. The former slave who was freed by Union troops in 1864, spent his remaining 40 years in Ohio. He lived quietly and likely would have been forgotten, if not for a remarkable letter to his former master published in a Cincinnati newspaper shortly after the Civil War. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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Posted: 6/19/2012 6:30:50 AM EST
Rev. Fred Luter, pastor of the Franklin Ave. Baptist Church, delivers a sermon during Sunday Services at the Church in New Orleans, Sunday, June 3, 2012. The new face of a Christian denomination that formed on the wrong side of slavery before the Civil War could be an African-American preacher who grew up in New Orleans? Lower 9th Ward. The Southern Baptist Convention holds its annual meeting in New Orleans next week and it could see the election of Luter as president. Faced with growing diversity in America and declining membership in its churches, the denomination is making a sincere effort to distance itself from its troubled racial past. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
