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The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human ...
A woman from Senegal described what’s at stake as the Trump administration targets immigrants for deportation. “We are not ...
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 ...
An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced ...
Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time.
Students at Michigan State University's law school have found that slavery is still baked into American jurisprudence.
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.
Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings.