A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry ...

George Fitzhugh was a Virginia lawyer and the author of two books and numerous articles advocating slavery. Says Fitzhugh, "... the negro race is inferior to the white race, and living in their ...

[Panzer, p. 2] Other people further claim that the Church changed Her teaching on slavery, so the Church can change Her teachings on other issues too. A recent book, entitled The Popes and Slavery ...

We are here to buy a slave. Before us, waiting abjectly on the ... Our hosts will be the rebels, mostly members of the non-Arab Dinka tribe. They tend to be very tall and very black.

Throughout history there have been people who attempted to justify slavery. Many of them did so purely out of self-interest, in order to continue a barbaric trade, but some historical philosophers ...

In her book, Haas argues that U.S. history is overly harsh on the South and doesn't acknowledge that slavery was "a socially acceptable and economically worthwhile practice worldwide at the time ...

Slavery can broadly be described as the ownership, buying and selling of human beings. Slavery is one of the things that everyone agrees is unethical. Slavery can broadly be described as the ...

Slavery in America didn’t end 150 years ago, with Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Based on Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the film illuminates how in ...

In doing so, Armstrong challenges the idea that slavery is a merely historical problem, and shows its relevance in the contemporary world. 'This important and original interdisciplinary book sheds new ...

In “Freedom Braids” and “The Magic Callaloo,” young girls follow cornrowed maps to escape slavery. Sabrina Orah Mark is the ...

By Catherine Hong The Coming of the ‘Messiah’: How Handel’s Masterpiece Was Born John Adams reviews “Every Valley,” Charles King’s new book about the artistic, social and political ...

The Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, or Dak’Art, has opened in the Senegalese capital. The international arts ...