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September 25, 2014 Yale Gilder Lehrman Center Opinion
Remembering and Interpreting Northern Slavery
Now institutions are integrating similar tales more often. One of the most interesting and important developments in the public presentation of slavery in the North has been the uptick in historic houses and museums reinterpreting their stories.
September 23, 2014 Historians Against Slavery Opinion
Am I Still Not a Man and a Brother?
Over the past 15 years, the antislavery movement’s visual culture has depicted a world of 30 million slaves. Beyond the inevitable presence of chains and bars, much of this visual culture uses four main tropes: the supplicant slave, the scourged back, the auction block and the slave ship.
September 22, 2014 Mariah Long Infographic
Basic Stages of Grooming for Sexual Exploitation
September 18, 2014 Jeff Blom Story
Child Exploitation: How Old or How High?
Watching the six-year-old walk in my heart rose in my chest, and I felt a sickening feeling in my stomach. I looked at the trafficker, his eyes had narrowed with a glint of cruelty in them; he was all business now.
September 16, 2014 John Pepper Opinion
The Plague of the Other
I refer here to the human tendency to lift ourselves up by comparing ourselves to others in a way that demeans others, sometimes even to the point of regarding them almost as “inhuman,” deserving no respect or consideratio
September 14, 2014 Video
Photos That Bear Witness to Modern-Day Slavery
Lisa Kristine illuminates the stories of those she photographed and documents widespread instances of enslavement throughout the world today.
September 09, 2014 Brooke Hathaway Opinion
