<span>At the PEAK of slavery in 1860, only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. What your history books (don't) tell you is that 3,000 blacks owned a total of 20,000.</span>
The 1994 Cairo conference was mainly based on population and
development of people. The three main goals on which there were general consensus
were:
<span><span>·
</span>Provide education for all and sundry. It was
decided that primary education should be available for all within 2015.</span><span><span>
</span>
Reduce the number of infant and child mortality
to a minimum. Within the year 2000 the mortality rate should be reduced to 50
to 70 deaths per thousand.</span><span><span>
</span>Reduce the rate of maternal mortality to as
minimum as possible. </span>
Because they couldn't decide on whether slaves counted as a person at all or not.
