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That was my experience reading two game-changing books on Augustine and slavery. Published within months of each other, Toni Alimi’s Slaves of God and Matthew Elia’s The Problem of the Christian ...
Slavery defined our nation's past and still affects its present. Many Americans don't realize that, experts say. We want to help you learn the real truth about slavery. So we asked African ...
MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE: An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom, by Ilyon Woo. This was one of the Book Review’s 10 best books of 2023.
While many of the books in question might not be directly about slavery, they are relevant because they address the legacy of slavery and enduring racism in the United States.
On the Caribbean islands, slavery has just been abolished. Though not quite free, a mother goes looking for her stolen children and discovers her own strength, in Eleanor Shearer's moving ...
When slavery was outlawed in the US in 1865, the 13th Amendment included one exception. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have ...
The Citing Slavery Project To place these laws in historical context for modern-day usage and encourage judges and lawyers to address slavery’s influence on the law, I started the Citing Slavery ...
Politics & Policy The Texas Historical Commission Removed Books on Racism and Slavery From Plantation Gift Shops An agency spokesperson claimed that the move had nothing to do with politics.
Her gift of opening the world of books to children of diverse races, cultures and classes, is a profound but simple way of righting the wrongs of slavery and oppression, one child at a time.