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Palaces, Penises, and Parties With the Young Jet Set
Forty-eight hours in Gstaad, made for Instagram. By Maureen O'Connor.
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Will South Carolina Spend Millions on a Fake Flag?
After the Charleston shootings, South Carolina removed the copy of a Civil War battle flag from the statehouse grounds. And that was just the beginning of this tangled tale. By Kevin M. Levin.
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Can a French Friar End the 21st-Century Slave Trade?
It’s 2015, and more than 20 million people are still held in some form of slavery all over the world. Traveling deep into the Amazon, William Langewiesche discovers why an unspeakable degradation is proving so hard to combat—and finds a man of God who has dedicated his life to the fight.
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How the ‘Weeping Time’ became a lost piece of Georgia history
In Savannah, the largest single sale of human beings in U.S. history. By Rosalind Bentley.
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Latin America is home to thousands of modern-day slaves, new report says
According to the latest figures from the Global Slavery Index 35.8 million people are estimated to be held under slave conditions. While Mauritania, Uzbekistan, Haiti, Qatar and India round out the top 5 countries with the most people trapped in slavery, a large chunk of Latin America is said to be home to a number of slaves. This is the second year the index has been published.
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U.S. top court rejects Nestle bid to throw out child slavery suit
The plaintiffs, originally from Mali, contend the companies aided and abetted human rights violations. By Lawrence Hurley.
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A Rare Encounter with an Aaron Douglas Painting that References Slavery’s Past
Lavender and gold silhouettes of soldiers on horseback, waves, and a kneeling figure overlap on the flat plane of Aaron Douglas’s “Let My People Go” (1935–39)... By Allison Meier.
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Fresh Air: Today’s Slaves Often Work For Enterprises That Destroy The Environment
Kevin Bales’ book, Blood and Earth, explains why slavery in the world's lawless zones is essential to operate mines that pose a grave threat to the environment. With Dave Davies.
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Brokers who recruit foreign workers to U.S. exploit vulnerabilities
Court cases show how middlemen take advantage of shortcomings in U.S. visa programs, compounding abuses foreign workers face even before they arrive in America. By Megan Twohey, Mica Rosenberg and Ryan McNeill. (Feb. 19)
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Written Behind Bars, This 1850s Memoir Links Prisons To Plantations
The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is the earliest known prison memoir by an African-American writer. Written by Austin Reed in the 1850s, it was discovered at an estate sale in 2009.
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The booming $150B global slave trade epidemic
In Thailand thousands of "sea slaves," held captive in shoddy fishing vessels, trawl for cheap forage fish used in canned pet food. In Pakistan, children as young as five are sold or kidnapped and forced to stand knee-deep in water, packing clay into molds to make bricks. In Ghana, poisonous dust and exposure to toxic chemicals and mine collapses threaten the health and safety of children who work in the artisanal gold mines.
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How the AP busted an international seafood slavery racket
Journalists at The Associated Press knew that labor abuses in Thailand's seafood business were an awful but open secret. They wanted to tell the story of an industry rife with human trafficking, abuse, slavery and murder. And they wanted to make the world pay attention. The best way to do that was to find those captives and follow the fish they caught on its journey to American tables, said Martha Mendoza, a national reporter at the AP and a Pulitzer Prize winner.
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How the Myth of the "Irish slaves" Became a Favorite Meme of Racists Online
Propaganda is cheap to produce on the web. And a purposeful lie in an age of "viral content" not only can race around the world in a day but resurface time and time again with surprising resiliency.
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In a digital archive of fugitive slave ads, a new portrait of slavery emerges
With Freedom on the Move, historians hope to reveal patterns of escape and capture, while giving anyone the chance to learn about the individual heroism of runaway slaves.
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5 Reasons to Be Wary of Amnesty’s Prostitution Policy
Move could increase sex trafficking and reduce quality of life for prostitutes. By Darren Geist.
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Jack Daniel’s Embraces a Hidden Ingredient: Help From a Slave
On its 150th anniversary, the Tennessee whiskey distillery concedes that its official history didn’t tell the whole story of its origins.
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“What to the Slave is 4th of July?”
James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’ Historic Speech
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The Slave Who Stole the Confederate Codes—and a Rebel Warship
When three Confederate officers decided to go ashore for a night in Charleston, they left their gunboat in the hands of an enslaved pilot. It was a critical mistake. By Christopher Dickey.
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King, magician, general… slave
Eunus and the First Servile War against Rome. By Mike Dash.
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What We Owe the White House Slaves: $83 Million
The slaves who built the White House got no pay—but their owners got up to $60 a year. So here’s what America really owes the builders’ descendants. By Michael Daly.
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