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Voice of America
April 3, 2018
After years of being abused, exploited and enslaved, the girls in gloves do not hesitate to strike when their turn arrives. Cheered on by their friends, the Filipina children launch into a frenzied flurry of kicks and jabs against their trainers. These young survivors of modern slavery are learning martial arts ... slavery
Daily Nebraskan
April 3, 2018
Cooper Owens' presentation focused on the history of slavery in medicine centers across the United States and African-American women slaves' experiences as medical patients. She also highlighted how such experiences contributed to American gynecology. "I hope to create this theoretical offering ...
History News Network (HNN)
April 3, 2018
Historical monuments can provide clear windows onto our nation's troubled racial past -- or they can obscure more than they reveal. And universities have a special obligation to examine how we memorialize the past, said speakers at a two-day symposium "American Universities, Monuments, and the Legacies of Slavery.".
Prensa Latina
April 2, 2018
Nouakchott, Apr 2 ( Prensa Latina) A Mauritanian court sentenced today to between 10 and 20 years in prison to three defendants, one of them is a woman, found guilty of keeping some persons in slavery conditions, official sources reported today. Among the convicts, there is one condemned to twoÃÂ ...
The Guardian
April 2, 2018
Far from representing the new birth of freedom, what the discovery of the Americas brought about was a new birth of slavery. In the settlement of the New World prior to 1820, Africans outnumbered Europeans by roughly five to one. So the typical American settler was neither a swaggering entrepreneur norÃÂ ...
Duke Today
April 2, 2018
Drawing upon works by Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and other prominent 18th and 19thcentury writers, Painter described how “slavery did harm to the American political character.” The tribalist politics that Painter said define “America in the age of Trump” result from the ongoing legacy of slavery,ÃÂ ...
CBS Detroit
April 2, 2018
DETROIT (AP) – Detroit's early complicity in slavery is among the topics an author plans to discuss during an event at University of Detroit Mercy. Tiya Miles plans to speak Friday evening at the Detroit school, where she will share the findings of her book, “The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery andÃÂ ...
New Haven Independent
April 2, 2018
DAVID SEPULVEDA PHOTOS An animated Daniel Diaz, Arte Inc.'s co-founder and chairman, moved through the aisles of Fair Haven School's auditorium with the fervor of a televangelist. His message — that we must not forget the history of slavery in Puerto Rico, that we must harness its lessons andÃÂ ...
The Guardian
April 2, 2018
Since the Modern Slavery Act of 2015, British companies over a certain size have been required to report on slavery in their supply chains. Their statements are both shocking and admirable. Shocking because they make clear that the incidence of slavery has become normalised once again – and not justÃÂ ...
Page Six
April 2, 2018
Octavia Spencer has signed on as executive producer on the independent anti-slavery movie “Mumbet,” Variety has learned exclusively. “Mumbet” will be directed by Alethea Root (“Part Time Fabulous”) and produced by Kim Waltrip (“Hit & Run”) of Wonderstar Productions and Root of Truth 13 Productions.
Miami Herald
April 2, 2018
A Florida man is charged with slavery and pimping in federal court after a woman escaped to tell cops a story of sex, beatings and hard labor that stretched from Florida to the U.S. Virgin Islands. Alston Orlando Leroy Williams, 42, of Lake Worth faces one count of sex trafficking of a minor, three counts of sexÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
April 2, 2018
Detroit's early complicity in slavery is among the topics an author plans to discuss during an event at University of Detroit Mercy. ... speak Friday evening at the Detroit school, where she will share the findings of her book, "The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straights.
Variety
April 2, 2018
Octavia Spencer has signed on as executive producer on the independent anti-slavery movie "Mumbet," Variety has learned exclusively. "Mumbet" will be directed by Alethea Root ("Part Time Fabulous") and produced by Kim Waltrip ("Hit & Run") of Wonderstar Productions and Root of Truth 13 Productions.
University of Virginia
March 31, 2018
In 1861, Alexander H. Stephens, vice president of the short-lived Confederate States of America, gave a speech about the Confederate constitution, which included justifying and codifying the continuation of slavery as the basis for secession. The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitatingÃÂ ...
TheGrio (blog)
March 31, 2018
Although slavery is still widely — and quietly — practiced throughout the northern African country, two slave owners were recently jailed for their unlawful employment methods. This is a rare and atypical in Mauritania. In fact, the BBC reports that “the country has jailed more anti-slavery activists that slaveÃÂ ...
WUNC
March 31, 2018
Universities from Brown in Rhode Island to Furman in South Carolina have commissions in place to study Race, Slavery and Monuments. One institution where millions of dollars is being spent to make sure everyone has a say in how universities remember and mark the past is the University of Virginia.
The Atlantic
March 25, 2018
For an index of the two-dozen previous items in the post-Parkland gun-safety series, please see the bottom of this post. In this installment, I offer reader messages on two main themes. One is whether it matters to talk about the specific “killing power” of the AR-15 and the ammunition it uses. The other isÃÂ ...
The Stanford Daily
March 15, 2018
Institutional slavery was supposedly outlawed in 1865. So why is it that a system where workers, who are unfairly forced into the system, are paid pennies a day and “rented” and “traded” around is still in existence? People are generally familiar with some of the other problematic lobbies, such as the NRAÃÂ ...
Pacific Standard
March 15, 2018
Call it "fake history." Whenever people on social media start talking slavery, reparations, and race, some Internet troll will jump up and demand, "What about the Irish?" Over the past few years, the myth of Irish slavery has found fertile ground in Internet memes as a way to derail any conversation aboutÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 14, 2018
As cities throughout the South move to take down monuments of Confederate leaders, the mayor of Nashville unveiled a plan this week for the city to honor an overlooked part of the Civil War era: the contributions and sacrifices of slaves. Under the proposal, announced Tuesday by Mayor David Briley nearÃÂ ...
BBC News
March 14, 2018
Police in Italy say they have broken up a "psycho sect" that enslaved members by forcing them to adhere to a strict macrobiotic diet and cut off contact with the outside world. Five people are under investigation over allegations including maltreatment and tax evasion. Among the suspects is a business mogul who is accusedÃÂ ...
BBC News
March 14, 2018
Forty-one "extremely vulnerable" people are being supported by authorities after raids in Liverpool targeting a suspected modern slavery ring. A 28-year-old man and his 32-year-old wife were arrested with a 34-year-old man on suspicion of offences including forced labour and trafficking. They wereÃÂ ...
WMOT
March 14, 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville Mayor David Briley says his city can begin to acknowledge, atone and seek reconciliation for slavery by replacing an unused minor league baseball stadium with a park commemorating a Civil War fort built by slaves. Briley announced Tuesday he'll seek $1 million inÃÂ ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian
March 14, 2018
As the Penn History of Slavery Project enters a new semester, students in the group have expressed concerns over the less collaborative and active role taken by the faculty group. The Penn Slavery Project, formed in Spring 2017, is a group of undergraduate students dedicated to researching Penn'sÃÂ ...
University of Virginia
March 14, 2018
The event, “Interpreting and Representing Slavery and Its Legacies in Museums and Sites: International Perspectives,” will examine the variety of approaches used at museums and sites around the Atlantic to represent the history and legacies of the slave trade, slavery and emancipation. With experts fromÃÂ ...
CNN (blog)
March 13, 2018
A few schools will even receive a visit from a CNN correspondent, who will report live from the school. If you're doing something to raise awareness of modern slavery, let us know your plans by telling us on Twitter or Instagram, using #myfreedomday. (You must be aged 13 or older to post on social media).
History
March 13, 2018
Eliza Whitmire's story highlights the underreported complexities of slavery and the American frontier. Few historical narratives, for example, tell the story of a Georgia plantation owned and operated by Cherokee enslavers. And few chronicles of the frontier account for its human diversity. Often depicted asÃÂ ...
Psychology Today (blog)
March 12, 2018
In short, this analysis speaks to the fact that gun laws relate to gun deaths in a way that matches a common-sense prediction regarding the relationship between these two variables. Further, it seems that being in a state that has a history of slavery eerily maps onto both the nature of gun laws and the ratesÃÂ ...
History
March 6, 2018
Human slavery. If the Confederacy had been a separate nation, it would have ranked as the fourth richest in the world at the start of the Civil War. The slave economy had been very good to American prosperity. By the start of the war, the South was producing 75 percent of the world's cotton and creatingÃÂ ...
MyStatesman.com
March 3, 2018
An Austin school board member hinted at the stain of slavery in the Old South when she warned that changing the names of schools named after Texans with Confederate roles makes it logical to change the names of even more schools. Austin school Trustee Ann Teich said at the school board's Feb.
CNN
March 3, 2018
The Southern Poverty Law Center has sounded the alarm by releasing a report, "Teaching Hard History: American Slavery." SPLC insists the country needs an intervention, and urges states, school districts and textbook publishers to stop avoiding the hard truths about slavery. According to the report, theÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 2, 2018
The government is slashing the financial support it provides to victims of slavery in the UK by nearly 50%. In a statement to the Guardian, the Home Office confirmed that the weekly allowance provided to slavery victims will be cut from ã65 to ã37.75. Support for victims lasts for 45 days following confirmationà...
Afro American
March 2, 2018
American students and educators know little about slavery, according to a report recently released by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The report, “Teaching Hard History: American Slavery” was released Feb. 1 as part of the SPLC's “Teaching Tolerance” program. The initiative is designed to educateÃÂ ...
WGLT News
February 28, 2018
For all practical purposes Illinois embraced slavery at its founding in 1818, despite entering the Union as a non-slave state. For example, Illinois' first governor, first lieutenant governor, and president of the state's first constitutional convention were all slaveholders. Frank Cicero Jr. is the author of "CreatingÃÂ ...
The Root
February 28, 2018
One story she tells, though was chilling. Harrell said that after giving a lecture on genealogy and reparations in Amite, Louisiana, she met Mae Louise Walls Miller, who actually said these words: “I didn't get my freedom until 1963.” The abuse and terror of Miller's story mirrored the horrors of chattel slavery,ÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
... the Civil War or President Lincoln's second inaugural address, which wrote into the history of our country the truth that the war arose over slavery, and that the catastrophic loss was likely God's judgment on the costs of purging that sin from our country. America indeed paid a tremendous price for slavery.
HowStuffWorks
December 31, 1999
Slavery is a stain on nearly every nation's history book. And it's been abolished by law in 167 countries. Unfortunately, despite these laws, the abhorrent practice still continues today, with 2017 estimates suggesting that more than 40 million people worldwide are victims of some form of modern slavery.
UN News
December 31, 1999
Commemorating the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the United Nations Secretary-General on Monday said that while the abhorrent practice was abolished in the 1800s, it continues to have profound social, cultural and political impacts today.
BBC News
December 31, 1999
The rugged landscape of north Wales is not a place usually associated with modern-day slavery. Yet for some victims, its remote location has become a refuge. Sophie - not her real name - has a tragic but not unique tale. Living in eastern Europe, she was approached by a family friend, known as Robert,ÃÂ ...
Detroit Free Press
December 31, 1999
As Nikole Hannah-Jones writes brilliantly in the forward to “The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Slavery”: "The badge of slavery wasn't our skin. It was the conditions created to demean, degrade, exploit, and control those with our skin. We have never rid ourselves of those badges, not in theÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
To the Editor: Re “Beyond the Slave Trade, the Cadaver Trade,” by Daina Ramey Berry (Sunday Review, Feb. 4):. The use of stolen African-American cadavers as specimens for research and teaching in some of our country's foremost medical colleges suggests some peculiar attitudes toward the humanityÃÂ ...
Bluffton Today
February 27, 2018
“A Conversation about Interpreting Slavery in a Historic City” will include Browning-Mullis and other panelists: Jamal Toure, board member of George Liele Visions Inc. (nonprofit of First African Baptist Church); Jamie Credle, director of the Davenport House Museum; and Shawn Halifax, cultural historyÃÂ ...
WFSU
February 27, 2018
Rouson stated, "Like the Whitney Plantation this bill does not glorify the institution of slavery. It does not honor the system of oppression that exemplifies man's inhumanity to man. And whether it is Spanish Florida or British colonial Florida or Civil War Florida. This bill honors and memorializes the men andÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
February 27, 2018
Texas and South Carolina have monuments to African-American history in their states, including acknowledgements of slavery as well as other contributions black residents have made. Outside Georgia's Capitol is a statue honoring black lawmakers who were elected after the Civil War but expelled byÃÂ ...
The Recorder
February 27, 2018
This undated scanned image released by the Boston Public Library shows an document dated July 12, 1867, and titled, "Address presented to William Lloyd Garrison," part of its collection of 19th century anti-slavery documents. The library recruited an army of volunteers to help transcribe about 12,000ÃÂ ...
VICE
February 27, 2018
Slavery might have ended on paper after the Civil War, but many white landowners did everything they could to exploit newly freed slaves well into the 20th century. Thousands of black laborers across the South were forced to work against their will as late as the 1960s—a new form of enslavement thatÃÂ ...
JSTOR Daily
February 27, 2018
Russian serfdom developed, as historian William C. Hine writes, during roughly the same time period as American slavery. The Russian Code of 1649 “firmly embedded serfdom” as a labor system. The Virginia House of Burgesses's first piece of slave legislation, allowing African slavery for life, passed inÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 27, 2018
To the Editor: Re “Beyond the Slave Trade, the Cadaver Trade,” by Daina Ramey Berry (Sunday Review, Feb. 4):. The use of stolen African-American cadavers as specimens for research and teaching in some of our country's foremost medical colleges suggests some peculiar attitudes toward the humanityÃÂ ...
BBC News
February 25, 2018
The rugged landscape of north Wales is not a place usually associated with modern-day slavery. Yet for some victims, its remote location has become a refuge. Sophie - not her real name - has a tragic but not unique tale. Living in eastern Europe, she was approached by a family friend, known as Robert,ÃÂ ...
Detroit Free Press
February 25, 2018
Slavery lives. It is America's burden that, like the building of our country, continues to be borne on the backs of African Americans more than anyone else. America has spent more than a century and a half not dealing with the heinous institution that attempted to make beasts of men. It watched while formerÃÂ ...
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