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Black Leaders in Arizona Push for Removal of State’s [Neo] Confederate Monuments
African-American leaders in Arizona are the next to call for the swift removal of the state’s Confederate monuments, joining an overall cry across the nation by those who know that the monuments celebrate slavery and racism and, generally, just the wrong side of history. By Breanna Edwards. (June 5, 2017)
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American slavery: Separating fact from myth
On Juneteenth, the day that commemorates the ending of slavery in the US, a historian dispels myths about the 'peculiar institution' of slavery.
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Historians uncover slave quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
Archeologists have excavated an area of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion and uncovered the slave quarters of Sally Hemings.
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852.
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'Tens of thousands' of modern slavery victims in UK, NCA says
Modern slavery and human trafficking is far more prevalent than previously thought, with a recent crackdown lifting the lid on the scale of the crime and potentially tens of thousands of victims in the UK, the National Crime Agency has said.
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America’s Ugliest Confederate Statue Isn’t Coming Down Anytime Soon
A Tennessee town’s absurd and tacky monument to General Nathan Bedford Forrest. By Connor Towne O'Neill.
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40 million slaves in the world, finds new report
More than 40 million people were estimated to be victims of modern slavery in 2016 -- and one in four of those were children. Those are the findings of a new report produced by the International Labor Organization (ILO), a U.N. agency focusing on labor rights, and the Walk Free Foundation, an international NGO working to end modern slavery. The report estimates that last year, 25 million people were in forced labor -- made to work under threat or coercion -- and 15 million people were in forced marriage.
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How British colonialism ruined a perfect cup of tea
On the colonial colouring of the culinary calamity the British call a cup of tea. By Hamid Dabashi.
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Memphis Wants to Remove a Statue Honoring First Grand Wizard of the KKK
Memphis, a majority black city, can't take down a statue honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest because state law blocks the removal of Confederate monuments. By Liliana Segura. (Sept. 2, 2017)
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Modern slavery is disturbingly common
Forced labour persists around the world, particularly for domestic workers
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Zinke: If We Take Down Confederate Statues, ‘Indians’ Will Start Complaining
The Interior secretary argues that if we take down Confederate statues, we’ll need to remove ones of Union generals who mistreated Native Americans. By Eric Levitz.
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ICE’s Captive Immigrant Labor Force
Across the country, ICE detainees are allegedly being coerced into performing work without proper compensation. By Michelle Chen.
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What America Taught the Nazis
In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in legal racism—the United States. By Ira Katznelson.
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Black Reconstruction” and the New (Marxist) Historiography
A white lawyer in South Carolina summed up the situation nicely: “We have gone through one of the most remarkable changes in our relations to each other, that has been known, perhaps in the history of the world.” By Andrew Hartman.
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No, Removing Monuments to Traitors Doesn’t Mean Removing Monuments to Founders
Confederate monuments don’t embody American history; they were built on lies about American history. By Ed Kilgore.
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The Confederate General Who Became a ‘Race Traitor’
Once General Robert E. Lee’s right-hand man, General Longstreet would become known as ‘the Judas of the Lost Cause.’ By Gil Troy.
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Humans are reportedly being sold as slaves for $400 each on the front line of the migrant crisis
Humans are being bought and sold at modern-day slave auctions in Libya, according to an investigation by CNN. The news channel found evidence of two separate auctions, held after dark at undisclosed locations in the war-ravaged country, which has become the epicentre of the ongoing migrant crisis.
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My life as an ISIS sex slave — and how I escaped
Nadia Murad grew up dreaming of owning a beauty salon. The youngest of 11 children in a Yazidi family in northwest Iraq, she took photographs of all the brides in her tiny village, studying their makeup and hair. Her favorite was of a brunette woman with curls piled high atop her head. But after ISIS overtook her village in August 2014, that dream died. Murad was captured, enslaved, sold, raped and tortured alongside thousands of her people in an effort to decimate their religion.
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How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history
The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War. By Coleman Lowndes.
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The Story of Cudjo Lewis — The Last Living Slave Brought To America
As a slave, he went by the name "Cudjo," a day-name given to boys born on a Monday, as the slavers could not pronounce the name "Kossola."
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