Archive | Slavery

"No such bill has ever come this far during congressional history of the United States."

"We can take an actual step toward reconciliation."

Black Mayor: "Symbols that occupy our collective landscape matter."

“This is not reparations, but it’s in the spirit of reparations."

Three-percent-black Canada creates holiday to acknowledge "the multi-generational harms caused by slavery."

They want to create a "billion-dollar foundation" for reparations.

Blacks can now serve as tribal chiefs.

"It's dehumanizing."

University president: "Blood money from slavery is woven into old institutions like Rutgers."

He blames "white resentment" for why he couldn't get it done as president.

Democrats demand a "national apology" for slavery.

He says conversations about reparations "are certainly in order."

"A rare old architectural specimen whose core structure may date to the 1700s is not sacrosanct in the face of reckoning."

Does that explain the stereotype?

Virginia House wants public universities to offer reparations.

Philly adds two holidays to celebrate non-whites.

An attack on racism that is really a defense.

Black Brazilians want their own "spaces."

Critic: "Thankfully, this racist monster will no longer be a Congressman."

They were a lot more common than you think.

In this season of hate, we should seek the truth.

The ship sank in September 1861.

Curious behavior from the "newspaper of record."

The slave trade we never hear about.

It will not be easy to win in court.

British tabloids know more about US history than American blacks do.

Muslims need to pay up.

Leftist argues that race is not real but that Kamala Harris is black.

"During the peak of the Atlantic slave trade, Africans retained more slaves for themselves than were sold to the West."

They were denied bathroom access if they fell behind on paying her.

He enslaved fellow Samoans.

BBC lets slip: "It would be unfair to judge a 19th Century man by 21st Century principles."

"Government and slave-owner practices had an enormous impact on African genetics."

Good counter-arguments.

The boundless bias of British broadcasting.

It’s part of the logic of Black Lives Matter.

Many Uyghurs work “under conditions that strongly suggest forced labor.”

Have we reached that point today?

“It’s time we elevate this.”

There will be protests across the nation on Friday.

Oscar-winning classic is gone with the wind.

"Racism . . . undid the brief progress of post-Civil War Reconstruction, and animates today’s conservative backlash."

The men may be among the first to be "stolen from their homelands" and brought to the New World.

But it's of course not due to similarities in behavior.

Black American wants African nations that practiced slavery to pay up.

We need someone like him today.

Novel perspective from the Washington Post.

The forced labor is part of a broader indoctrination program.

"Massa, We Love You Massa. We Gonna Pray Fo' You Massa, Singing- 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.'”

"We're not going to forget Mr. Jefferson," local professor insists.

Especially since African immigrants are much wealthier than native blacks.

"[A]cknowledging Black people’s full humanity demands justice in reparations."

"DNA ancestry tests can be problematic."

What does the Quran say about it?

Why not, after Columbus, the Founders, and everyone else?

White opposition to intermarriage.

Blacks say $400,000 per year isn't enough.

Just as American blacks blame whites for their failures, Africans deny responsibility for the misery they bring on themselves.

An eminent scholar sums up a lifetime of study.

Interesting rebuke of the "1619 Project."

Whites active in the Underground Railroad should not be honored, apparently.

Confirmed with ground-penetrating radar and two cadaver-sniffing dogs.

Fake history in the service of ideology.

A better source for facts than the “1619 Project.”

David Horowitz reports from the front lines in a new book.

"I’d say that, almost from the outset, I was disturbed by what seemed like a very unbalanced, one-sided account."

No word yet on calls for reparations.

Prime minister wants Harvard to support the University of the West Indies.

Thomas Dudley was a leading politician when Massachusetts legally sanctioned slavery in 1641.

Recreating (some version of) the German Coast Uprising of 1811.

Was lynching a scandal or a system of justice or both?

We think we can guess her answer.

Most don’t even think the government should apologize for slavery.

Five doctoral fellowships for students descended from slaves and a full-time director for the Center for Black Church Studies.

But no one says, “Hey! That’s not true!”