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

C‑SPAN.org offers links to books featured ... to flee in 1838 to New York and then New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he worked as a laborer for three years. He eluded slave hunters by changing ...

J. R. Oldfield, The English Historical Review “This timely book synthesizes the wealth of new information that has emerged in recent decades on the Atlantic slave trade . . . . This book would make an ...

Slavery by Another Name ... Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the film illuminates how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American ...

Southern state governments struggled to raise money to repair damaged infrastructure and to support new expenses such as universal public education. The prison problem was especially challenging ...

A lawsuit objecting to conditions on the Louisiana State Penitentiary's "farm line" is among at least three legal challenges ...

For people trapped in prison for decades, simple things like book clubs can be a lifeline and help people cope with the ...

Outside the prison walls, a small, grassroots movement formed around an equally urgent task: Share these stories with the ...

California and Nevada voters face decisions on amendments that would eliminate exceptions allowing slavery and involuntary ...

Original and deeply researched, this book provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on ...

NEW ORLEANS — Employees have used the words "prison" and "slavery" to describe what it's like to work for the New Orleans Department of Public Works. The comparisons come as allegations of abuse ...

Kat Torres, an Instagram influencer, was sentenced to eight years in a Brazilian prison for the human trafficking and slavery of a woman ... asked Ana to move to New York in 2019 and work as ...