The movement toward the abolition of the system of enslavement has been remembered as one of the great humanitarian initiatives in modern history. Occurring as it did in a world that was rent by the slaveholding republics and empires of… Read More ›
Slavery
The Most Damaging Myths About Slavery, Debunked
From History by Yohuru Williams: Were U.S. slaves in any way responsible for their own misery? Were there any silver linings to forced bondage? These questions surface from time to time in the American cultural conversation, rekindling a longstanding debate… Read More ›
The Great British Empire Debate
From The New York Review of Books by Kenan Malik the author of The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics: The sun may have long ago set on the British Empire (or on all but a few… Read More ›
The Far Right’s Toxic Forbears: Super-Wealthy Secessionist Slaveholders
From History News Network by Professor James Brewer Stewart: We are, the cliché goes, reliving the Gilded Age. Then as now the mega-rich wax ever fatter while the chasm between poor and prosperous yawns ever wider. Then as now over-consumption… Read More ›