ACLU Accuses Poultry Processing Prison Camp of Human Trafficking
Court-ordered program provides slave labor to private companies says new ACLU of Oklahoma lawsuit.
Slavery
The Real 'Modern Slavery'? Inside America's Court-Ordered Corporate Labor Camps
Under the guise of getting addicts treatment, courts are ordering people to do dangerous and unremunerated labor in "diversion" factory farms.
Human-Trafficking Arrests Are Very Rare in Most States
The exceptions in 2016 were Minnesota and Texas, according to newly released FBI data.
Super-Chef Tom Colicchio Changes Name of New Restaurant Because…Phrenology
Where should we stop (and start) with renaming places due to historical crimes?
Despite the President's Pandering, White Nationalists Are Still Losing
As Trump learned this week, pandering to white nationalists means alienating most other Americans.
What Frederick Douglass Teaches Us about July 4th and American Exceptionalism
Douglass recognized that embracing freedom and liberty is a process that will continue to unfold and expand over time.
Frederick Douglass Hated Socialism
He stood for natural rights, racial equality, and economic liberty in a free labor system. At the heart of his worldview was the principle of self-ownership.
The Immoral 'Rule of Law ' Behind Trump's Deportation Regime
It is wrong just like Fugitive Slave laws were wrong.
Like Fugitive Slave Laws, Deportation Is a Moral Loser
The resistance to Trump's war on immigration looks remarkably similar to the abolitionist movement
Anarchy, Swamp, and Utopia
Archeologists offer a new look at a secretive settlement of runaway slaves.
Memo to Presidential Hopefuls of Both Parties: Guest Worker Programs Are Not Indentured Servitude
Republicans have hit new lows on immigration, but neither party is averse to pandering
Virginia Mayor Proposes Building Ballpark over Slave Graveyard
But it would include a memorial
Report: There Are Slaves in the Majority of Countries
Tens of millions of human beings treated like property
DOJ List Honors Slave Catchers Killed in the Line of Duty
Two of them from the 1850s among a list of marshals killed while on duty
Department of Justice Honors Slave Catchers for Their Service to the Law
Roll call for marshals killed in the line of duty includes two men killed while trying to catch fugitive slaves
Women Detail Sexual Abuse, Beatings in Cleveland Captivity
Several calls to authorities by neighbors appear to have been ignored
A Never-Ending Game of Cat and Mouse
The battle between smugglers and the state forged the U.S.
Tuareg Rebels Using Captives as Slaves in Mali
Anti-slavery groups say the conflict in Mali has worsened the situation for slaves
Mississippi Officially Ratifies 13th Amendment
Actually ratified the anti-slavery amendment in 1995, but didn't file the paperwork
Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx redress the horrors of American slavery.
Miami-Dade Proposal To Use Prison Labor Called Unconstitutional
There's a name for workers brought to the job in chains
Judge Awards $3.3 Million to Yemeni Sex Slave Kept by Embassy Worker in Tokyo
Embassy worker's husband repeatedly raped the woman, who was hired to be a housekeeper but paid under a dollar an hour
Forced to Be Free
What burqa bans, anti-TV crusades, and Leonard Peikoff have in common with the reform movements of the antebellum era
Florida's Forgotten Rebels
Rediscovering the most successful slave revolt in American history
