Probing the incentives and institutions that kept slavery alive can help us value what freedom means.

Take away its legal sanction and subsidy, and the institution’s entire economic edifice crumbles.

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History Slavery Myths Debunked The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than Northern factory workers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and other lies, half-truths, and irrelevancies.

"Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true." ...

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Climate change and slavery form a vicious cycle. Collective action for a free and livable future is an opportunity to combat ...

Historians have also started grappling with the ways American slavery was uniquely gender-egalitarian – at least for white women. While Northern women were trapped in coverture, Southern states were ...