Forced Labor
November 18, 2014 Video
Today We Face a Different Battle
October 30, 2014 Minh Dang Opinion
Slavery Still Exists
Recently, John Stewart from The Daily Show challenged Bill O'Reilley to acknowledge white privilege, and the legacy of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
October 27, 2014 Brooke Hathaway Opinion
Why We Must Begin Talking About Labor Trafficking
Real-life stories of survivors of pimp-controlled prostitution, of children sold into brothels, of girls forced to marry old men dominate our headlines.
October 20, 2014 Mariah Long Opinion
11 Facts About Modern Day Slavery
October 02, 2014 Minh Dang Opinion
Language Matters: Defining Human Trafficking and Slavery
September 25, 2014 Yale Gilder Lehrman Center Opinion
Remembering and Interpreting Northern Slavery
Now institutions are integrating similar tales more often. One of the most interesting and important developments in the public presentation of slavery in the North has been the uptick in historic houses and museums reinterpreting their stories.
September 23, 2014 Historians Against Slavery Opinion
Am I Still Not a Man and a Brother?
Over the past 15 years, the antislavery movement’s visual culture has depicted a world of 30 million slaves. Beyond the inevitable presence of chains and bars, much of this visual culture uses four main tropes: the supplicant slave, the scourged back, the auction block and the slave ship.
September 16, 2014 John Pepper Opinion
The Plague of the Other
I refer here to the human tendency to lift ourselves up by comparing ourselves to others in a way that demeans others, sometimes even to the point of regarding them almost as “inhuman,” deserving no respect or consideratio
