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Jun 18, 2024 · The dehumanization of people who have been accused or convicted of crimes mirrors the dehumanization that facilitated slavery. As Juneteenth approaches, we must recognize that the chains of chattel slavery still rattle in modern-day mass incarceration. Nearly 2 million people face legal enslavement today. Decreasing the populations of jails and ...
Feb 7, 2020 · Taking time to reflect on how deeply slavery has shaped our society. Oscar Dubón, UC Berkeley's vice chancellor for equity & inclusion, wrote the campus community in honor of Black History Month. The book, "Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management," is an "attempt to write slavery back into the history of American business,” Rosenthal ...
Feb 25, 2013 · African-Americans have been freed from slavery for 150 years, but racism inherent in the system that dehumanized them can still be felt today, Annette Gordon-Reed, Ph.D., said in a discussion. Annette Gordon-Reed spoke about the ways that African Americans’ stories about slavery have been marginalized by historians. Photo by Patrick Verel
Aug 20, 2013 · Slavery is alive and well in our country, almost one hundred fifty years after its legal end. In 1860, on the brink of the Civil War, the United States had the largest slave society in the Americas, with almost four million held in bondage. While there is no certain way to enumerate the number of slaves in the nation today, many experts believe ...
Jun 29, 2021 · In fact, the expansion and development of the pervasive and many-sided informal forms of slavery encountered today seem, to a large extent, to have taken place during the early modern expansion of commodified legal regimes of slavery and slave trading across the globe, especially in those environments where formal slavery occurred alongside and in interaction with existing local and informal ...
- Matthias van Rossum
- 2021
Research on the intra-American slave trade has gained a renewed interest with publications like Greg O’Malley’s Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619–1807. 96 The same could be said of the slave trade in the Indian Ocean with works like Richard Allen’s European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1850. 97 One central debate that has recently been ...
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Aug 16, 2019 · The argument has often been used to diminish the scale of slavery, reducing it to a crime committed by a few Southern planters, one that did not touch the rest of the United States. Slavery, the ...
