The constitutional slavery exception nobody talks about

The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. What follows the abolition, separated by the word “except,” has been generating ...

UK stole 25m years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, says report

Experts put estimate for economic harm done by 200 years of chattel slavery at $2tn, but stress this is ‘not an invoice’ ...
The Root on MSN

Now they’re trying to shut down a slavery exhibit in Philadelphia

The city of Philadelphia is being forced to confront the dark legacy of slavery... especially as it pertains to the first ...
The Real News Network

‘Prisons are akin to chattel slavery’: Inside the big business of prison farms and ‘agricarceral’ slave labor

“If you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, it’s built on dispossession, it’s built on enslavement,” says Joshua Sbicca, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of ...
The Daily Northwestern

Historian Sir Hilary Beckles addresses chattel slavery, postcolonialism and reparations at Buffett Institute event

University of the West Indies history Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles spoke about reparations for chattel slavery in the postcolonial Americas at a Tuesday event sponsored by Northwestern’s Buffett Institute ...
WTNH

Yale issues an apology for its involvement in slavery and commits to addressing its history

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – Yale University issued an apology Friday for its involvement with chattel slavery in the United States. The statement came from Yale’s President, Peter Salovey, when findings ...
The American Spectator

The War on Labor Expense is Renormalizing Slavery, Just in a 21st Century Form

Slavery is an abhorrent concept, but for most of human history, it was accepted as normal. The widespread collapse of “the peculiar institution” in the 19th century was a triumph of Western ...