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How 100-million year old geology affects modern presidential elections
The image above shows the outcome of the 2008 presidential elections in the American South. Counties that swung Republican are in red. Counties that swung Democratic are in blue. The result shows more...
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Database documenting payouts to UK slave-owners to be launched for public use
The British government paid out Ā£20 million to compensate 3,000 slave-owning families for the loss of their "property" when slave ownership was abolished in Britain's colonies in 1833. At the time,...
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"An Englishman who mysteriously vanished on holiday more than a decade ago has been reunited with his family after he was discovered allegedly working as a slave on a Welsh farm for the last 13 years."...
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A 69 year-old Malaysian woman, an Irishwoman, 57, and a Briton, 30, were all rescued from a house in south London this week, reports the BBC. A couple, both 67, are under arrestāand accused of holding...
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Malaysia's tech manufacturing sector based on forced labor
"Hardly a major brand name" doing business in Malaysia is untainted by the use of forced labor from trafficked workers, according to a study backed by the US Department of Labor. (moreā¦)
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South Korea's brutalized, disabled slaves
Whole towns' worth of people on South Korea's remote southwest coast are complicit in the longrunning, open enslavement of mentally and physically disabled workers who are kidnapped from the streets...
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Rand Paul: solve vaccination issues by making children into property
"The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health." (moreā¦)
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Family records for slavery-era black Americans to be made available, free,...
[caption id="attachment_399707" align="alignnone" width="843"] āGroup of Contrabands at Foller's House, 1862,ā Library of Congress via[/caption] A million and a half handwritten records from the 1860s...
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South Carolina: Confederate flag will be removed from Statehouse on Friday,...
It's about time. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, just now: ā"The Confederate flag is coming off the South Carolina Statehouse. Tomorrow morning at 10:00am, we will see the Confederate Flag come...
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British history of slave ownership
Slavery was outlawed in the British Empire in 1833, decades before the U.S. Civil War. The outcome: relative historical obscurity, leaving Britain's 17th and 18th century luminaries untarnished by...
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Database: Old newspaper ads searching for loved ones lost to slavery
The Southwestern Christian Advocate ran its "Lost Friends" page from 1877 until "well into the first decade of the twentieth century." The Historic New Orleans Collection has scanned 330 of these ads...
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The US Civil War was fought over slavery
Why did the South fight? Why does this question remain controversial? (moreā¦)
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Jamaica wants slavery reparations from the UK
Members of Jamaica's Parliament are threatening to turn their backs on David Cameron during an official visit unless he agrees to discuss reparations for slavery during the meeting. (moreā¦)
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Out of the Shadow of Aunt Jemima: the real black chefs who taught Americans...
Featuring reviews of more that 160 cookbooks written by African Americans during the 19th and 20th centuries, Toni Tipton-Martin's The Jemima Code is a much-overdue look at at how African Americans...
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Human traffickers implant their slaves with RFID chips
An anonymous ER doctor treated a woman who claimed she had a tracking chip embedded in her body. At first he disbelieved her -- lots of people suffer from delusions that they have implanted microchips...
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Irish slave myths debunked
White supremacists (and vaguely racist uncles on Facebook) occasionally pipe up with the idea that the Irish were, effectively, held as slaves in America. Though often subject to indenture and other...
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Qatar's World Cup stadium is being built by modern slaves
Qatar, one of the worst places in the world to be a worker (even the flight attendants experience human rights abuses), was picked to host the 2022 football world cup by the famously corrupt FIFA...
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Before 1988 Olympics, South Korea sent 'vagrants' to camps where rape and...
In the runup to the 1988 Olympics, the South Korean government ordered Seoul's "vagrants" to be cleared from the street. Thousands of people, many of them small children, were sent to a "welfare...
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Bill O'Reilly: Slaves who built White House were "well-fed and had decent...
In response to Michelle Obama's speech on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, former history teacher Bill O'Reilly told his viewers that the slaves who built the White House were...
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Tomorrow: largest prison strike in US history
America imprisons more people than any other country in history, in both absolute and relative terms. American prisoners -- disproportionately racialized and poor people -- are held in inhumane...
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