Resurrecting the forgotten history of the first enslaved Africans in America
Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...
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How the Study of Slavery Has Shaped the Academy
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The History of Slavery in the United States From Beginning to End
W ith the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme oppression and violence. But slavery was not just about labor and the ...
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America’s Human Rights Crisis: Prison Slavery
The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human ...
Where were enslaved Africans taken from? The answer could be hidden in their bones.
Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which could help ...
The New York Times28d
The Western and Border Slave States
For the fact is, that the mere incident of negro Slavery, so diverse in the different States in its extent, its scope, its history and its power, can furnish no such omnipotent bond of union to ...
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The Civil War and emancipation
On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...
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History of slavery pulled apart, one garment at a time, in ‘The Poetics of Dimensions’
Recognizable clothing labels, like Levis, and mass produced silk-screened tee-shirts contextualize the clothes in the present ...
The New York Times24d
IMPORTANT DECISION.; The Slave-trade Evidence Presumptions. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. Before Judge Betts.
The United States vs. The Mark Kate and her cargo. -- This was a libel filed to forfeit the bark and her cargo, on the ground that she was fitted out with, the intent to engage her in the Slave-trade.
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However, in terms of prevalence, forced labour is most common in the Arab States (5.3 per thousand ... barriers that underpin modern slavery, the United Nations University Centre for Policy ...
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The Gettysburg Address revisited and thereafter
February 12 marks the birth of one of the greatest leaders of the United States of America. On February 12, 1809 one person ...