International Day for the Abolition of Slavery - Baha'i
Most people I am sure think that slavery ended with the Civil War in the United States, but slavery in some form still exists to this day. On December 2, 1949, the Children are used in child labor because of one thing they are cheap, easier to ... [... more]
Bella Online |
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of ...
 Amazon.com Review: Born in poverty, and self-educated while working in a print shop, William Lloyd Garrison was one of the United States' greatest crusading editors, putting out a weekly anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, for 35 years, beginning in 18 [... more]
$32.50
Amazon.com |
Michel Foucault
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body ... [... more]
Random House |
Bryan Prince
The extraordinary story of one couple's determination to free themselves and their children from slavery and make a new life in Canada Prior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and children made the perilous trip north from ... [... more]
Random House |
How to Celebrate Black History Month in Harlem
For over 100 years, Harlem has been the country's epicenter for African-American art, business, politics and culture. Beginning with the abolition of slavery and the ensuing mass migration of African Americans from the West Indies and the ... [... more]
eHow |
Did the Fed Cause the Housing Bubble?
One of the few positive developments from the housing bubble is that many mainstream economists have recognized the pernicious role played by the Federal Reserve. Indeed, some analysts on CNBC have discussed the outright abolition of the Fed. The ... [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Government Money Deserves a "Swift" Abolition
It seems that everywhere we look today, government intrusion into people's lives and its expropriation of their property are on the rise. Thankfully, this trend is not inevitable. Ideology ultimately determines the course of the struggle between ... [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Segregation
Segregation is the separation of people based on race, religion, ethnic group, sex, or social class. In the United States, racial segregation has been the most prevalent and visible form. After the abolition of slavery in 1865, laws, known as Jim ... [... more]
Healthline |
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and ...
Interesting, But Lacks Nuance and Context: Three journalists from the Hartford Courant attempted to expand a series of newspaper articles into a book-length examination of `the North's' complicity in slavery. They partially succeed. The book's early [... more]
$15.95
Amazon.com |
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and ...
Interesting, But Lacks Nuance and Context: Three journalists from the Hartford Courant attempted to expand a series of newspaper articles into a book-length examination of `the North's' complicity in slavery. They partially succeed. The book's early [... more]
$25.95
Amazon.com |
Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United ...
a revelation: Arguing About Slavery has a very difficult subject to make live, what William Lee Miller calls the "tedium and sublimity" of republican debate. The historian's duty to be evenhanded even when faced with the moral pit of slavery [... more]
$35.00
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Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union ...
A Different Civil War Battle: What is the relation between the American Civil War and the Monroe Doctrine? Where's the connection between the Emancipation Proclamation and the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857? Did you know that one of the crucial battles of the [... more]
$35.00
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