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Critics of the inmate firefighting program have long maintained that it is coercive — a form of servitude that is reminiscent of slavery. The parallel between inmate firefighting and slavery is ...

Among the writers of this period was Phillis Wheatley, whose life was exceptional in many ways. She received an outstanding education, a rarity for any woman of her times, black or white ...

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another. But when the kindness and ...

Most of the slavery precedents concern how property rights were protected by the U.S. Constitution, which was written by wealthy property owners in an era when much of the young nation's economy ...

A judge finds that Virginia law does not consider frozen embryos to be property that can be divided up in a partition lawsuit ...

Edmonia G. Highgate lived only 26 years, but she lived long enough to have a remarkable impact on the education of Black ...

“In telling the story of what happened to African Americans over the 80 year period of “neo-slavery”, we hope to add a significant new facet to America’s ongoing discussion about race.

Most of the slavery precedents concern how property rights were protected by the U.S. Constitution, which was written by wealthy property owners in an era when much of the young nation’s economy ...

The wooden writing tablet is the only deed of a sale of a slave to have been found in Roman Britain.Originally it was coated with black wax in which the scribe wrote with a stilus, but now his ...