In his triptych, Ellapsium: master & Helm (2016), Jared Owens, a formerly incarcerated artist based in New York, superimposes the 1788 diagram of the Brookes slave ship — what art historian Cheryl ...

Between 2012 and 2014, the ILO was involved in the End Slavery Now campaign to raise awareness on the 21 million people in forced labour worldwide. These people are trafficked, held in debt bondage or ...

Although it is not the day slavery legally ended, Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration honoring the end of slavery in the United States. In fact, slavery had ended in 1863 by an executive order ...

Imagine the most consequential legal event in U.S. history. Some people almost certainly think of that fateful day in 1954, when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Brown v. Board of Education. Others ...

In a recent blog, I shared an article by Scott Klusendorf: “Saving Some, Standing for All: A Defense of Pro-Life Incrementalism (And the Problem with ‘Abortion Abolitionism’).” As we expected, many ...

A supervised work crew of female jail prisoners fills sandbags for distribution to local residents in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Dorian in Titusville Florida in 2019. (Photo by Paul ...

Thanks to the 13th Amendment, slavery still exists in the US in the form of low- or no-wage prison labor. But organizers like Jeronimo Aguilar and John Cannon are working to end this practice for good ...

Is there any circumstance in the United States in which slavery should be legal? That is a question that voters in five states — Vermont, Oregon, Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee — will consider this ...

When the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865, it abolished slavery or, involuntary servitude, in the United States, with one exception: when used as punishment for a crime. On Nov. 8, voters in four ...

Amodern-day comparison could be Republicans taking credit in their states for infrastructure projects, including building roads and bridges, without mentioning they voted against the Infrastructure ...

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