Catherine of Aragon’s Bedchamber Servant | Get Ready with Me
Catalina of Motril was a former servant to Katherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII. Likely enslaved, she was brought to England at the age of 15 to serve…
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
It turns out that Taylor Farms, the agricultural company widely believed to be behind the cyclospora outbreak currently raging throughout the US, is also heavily involved in modern-day forced labor.…
Assata Shakur Speaks from Exile: Excerpts from an Interview by Sociologist Christian Parenti (Cuba, 1997)
Christian Parenti teaches sociology at the New College of California in San Francisco. What happens to old Black Panthers? Some wind up dead, like Huey P. Newton. Some join the…
A woman tells the history
of slavery in her family
Black Watermen of the Chesapeake
Mid-nineteenth century Maryland offered pseudo-freedom to African Americans who lived and worked on the water.
Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
by Paula Byrne
Laurence Fishburne reads a former slave’s incredible letter to his old master
In 1864, Jourdon Anderson and his wife escaped a life of slavery and moved to Ohio. A year later, he received a desperate letter from the man who used to…
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping…
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