Slavery Abolition

Amid contentious national pushback over how much of the full history of slavery in the United States should be taught in schools, the holiday season represents a particularly overlooked period. Around the time Christmas was starting to become a national holiday in the late-19th century, propagandists of the Lost Cause—the…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “Four score and 7 years ago…” Those historical words have been reprinted and shared for over 150 years. But by President Abraham Lincoln's own admission, the Gettysburg Address dismisses the use of words. I’m not joking. Here’s an excerpt: “The world will little…

Rep. David Scott wants to know how farms in Georgia were able to run what the feds call a "modern-day slavery operation" for years. File photo by Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images A Democratic congressman is seriously concerned that migrant agricultural laborers are being made to work against…

The Home Office has been accused of “misleading the public” after refusing to publish evidence to support its claim that allowing asylum seekers to work would create a “pull factor” for people to come to Britain. High profile figures including the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner and the chair of the Migration…

NEW YORK (AP) — Following a year of professional milestones born of her work on America’s history of slavery, Pulitzer Prize-winning Black journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones said she is clear-eyed about her mission to force a reckoning around the nation’s self-image. The New York Times Magazine writer began this year in…

The first case of the Omicron variant has been detected in China. ​​The discovery comes just weeks ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics. A building dubbed China’s “Little Red Mansion” is shocking Chinese society after a brutal sex slavery case was exposed within its walls. The details are shedding light…

Wednesday 08 December 2021 6:15 am Britain’s millions of small and medium sized businesses may assume that modern slavery has nothing to do with them, as they’re not major firms with a global footprint. Little do they know that a Cornwall café owner could be using coffee produced by child…

The National Assembly has adopted a report that found an ANC MP guilty of breaching the code of ethics for referring to a councillor as a “house-n****r” in a WhatsApp group. Faiez Jacobs, an ANC backbencher in parliament and former Western Cape party secretary, was guilty of breaching the code…

College Debates over history and racial inequity have boiled, simmered, and boiled anew in recent years. William & Mary students walk across the Williamsburg, Virginia, campus between classes. Washington Post/Julia Rendleman Washington Post photo by Julia Rendleman By Nick Anderson and Susan Svrluga, Washington Post November 27, 2021 WILLIAMSBURG, Va.…

Washington — Nearly two hundred years after the American Colonization Society and a group of African Americans who wanted a place they could call home, settled in Liberia, Africa's oldest republic is bracing for the historic reunion in hopes of jumpstarting and rebranding the land of the country's forefathers. The…