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  1. Slave Past, Modern Lives: An Analysis of the Legacy of Slavery and

    Using a variety of data sources, such as the US Census, American Community Survey (ACS), the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation County Health Rankings, and spatially robust OLS regression analysis, I find that in southern counties where slavery was denser black life ...

  2. The History of the History of American Slavery

    His name was Ulrich B. Phillips, and his American Negro Slavery, first published in 1918, was "central to proslavery historiography.". So writes scholar Gaines M. Foster in his exploration of the history of the notion that Southern slaveholders felt guilt about slavery even as they maintained it. Phillips was born in Georgia in 1877.

  3. Atlantic Slavery and the Slave Trade: History and Historiography

    Models of Slavery and Resistance. While each country in the Americas has its own national historiography on slavery, from a 21st-century perspective, it is hard to overestimate the role that US-based scholars played in shaping the agenda of slavery studies. Analyses of American plantation records began around the turn of the 20th century.Early debates emerged in particular over the conditions ...

  4. Most in U.S. say legacy of slavery still affects black people

    A U.S. House of Representatives committee plans to hold a hearing this week on the topic of reparations for slavery, the first hearing on the topic in more than a decade. The legacy of slavery still resonates for many Americans, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted earlier this year, with 63% believing it affects the position of black people in American society today either a ...

  5. New database tracks data on slaves, slavers, and allies

    The records of these three are among more than 750,000 of people, places, events, and sources available to search in a new open-source database called Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade ( Enslaved.org ), a repository of information and stories about those who were enslaved or enslavers, worked in the slave trade, or helped ...

  6. PDF The Political Legacy of American Slavery

    For. the first 250 years of American history, white land-owners, predominantly from the South, enslaved mil-lions of individuals of African descent. This"peculiar institution, as it was sometimes called, de ned the social, " fi economic, and political landscape of the American South throughout this period.

  7. Slavery and the Journal

    The word "slavery" first appeared in the Journal in 1813, in a tribute to Benjamin Rush that highlighted his writings opposing slavery. 2 But the Journal 's relationships to slavery and ...

  8. LibGuides: Researching Slavery and the Slave Trade: Databases

    Freely Available Databases. Slave Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. Contains information on more than 35,000 slave voyages involving the forcible transport of more than 12 million Africans to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover ...

  9. The Modern Slavery Core Outcome Set: A Survivor-Driven Consensus on

    The term "modern slavery" is a controversial one. It has been criticized as undermining international cooperation, trivializing historical slavery and being appropriated for political purposes (Dottridge, 2017; Faulkner, 2017).O'Connell Davidson (2016) has argued that the term risks equating today's exploited persons to "things" rather than recognizing their agency and diverse ...

  10. The Legacy of Slavery and Contemporary Racial Disparities in Arrest

    Despite providing a more robust understanding of slavery's negative consequences (particularly for African Americans) across many spheres, slavery's legacy of social control—notably, its link to modern law enforcement—remains a frontier in need of further investigation. 2 This is all the more necessary given historical work locating the origins of modern policing within slavery and ...

  11. The Major Findings of Harvard's Report on Its Ties to Slavery

    Here are the key findings. Harvard has pledged $100 million to create an endowed fund to "redress" past wrongs, one of the biggest funds of its kind. Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times. In ...

  12. Slavery

    Slavery is the condition in which one human being is owned by another. Under slavery, an enslaved person is considered by law as property, or chattel, and is deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons. Learn more about the history, legality, and sociology of slavery in this article.

  13. The Concept of Modern Slavery: Definition, Critique, and the Human

    Key Documents. Depending on the perspective, the concept of slavery is defined rather concisely or rather controversially. "More than 300 international slavery treaties have been signed since 1815, but they rarely used the same definition." (Bales 2005, p. 3, also cf. Skinner 2009, p.35) However, a short overview of the key documents shows that definitions of modern slavery did manage to ...

  14. Full article: Introduction: the impact of slavery on Europe

    This special issue was the result of the conference session Europe and Slavery.Estimating the share of slave-based activities in European economies, 1500-1850 at the World Economic History Conference in Boston in 2018. This was organised by the editors as part of their research efforts for the respective projects Slaves, commodities and logistics.. The direct and indirect, the immediate and ...

  15. 50 million people in modern slavery: No justification for 'fundamental

    The latest Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, published by the International Labour Organization (), International Organization for Migration and international human rights group Walk Free, revealed that last year, some 50 million people were living in modern slavery: 28 million in forced labour and 22 million in forced marriages. "It is shocking that the situation of modern slavery is not ...

  16. An American Tragedy: The legacy of slavery lingers in our ...

    Governance Studies. The United States of America, "a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal," began as a slave society. What can ...

  17. Full article: Slavery, Space, and Social Control on Plantations

    Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the public history presented at American and Caribbean plantations has been the subject of growing scholarly critique (e.g., Carter Citation 2016; Eichstedt and Small Citation 2002; Modlin and Arnold Citation 2008; Walcott-Wilson Citation 2020).Geographers, linguists, historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists have decried the continuing ...

  18. Learning About Slavery With Primary Sources

    Warm Up. Part I. The article uses primary sources to tell the story of slavery from 1619 to 1865. To begin thinking critically about primary sources, look at the cover image for the article, which ...

  19. Modern Slavery Research Methods: Enabling Data-Driven Decisions

    To generate the evidence required to make data-driven decisions and to empower the private sector to make targeted changes, greater investments in modern slavery research need to be made ...

  20. Modern Slavery in Business: The Sad and Sorry State of a Non-Field

    As our review of research on modern slavery in business in some of the main business and management subdisciplines shows, there has been very limited attention to date on the specific issue of modern slavery, even though in most areas, there is a reasonable literature base that could be usefully drawn on to develop some important and ...

  21. Empirical business research on modern slavery in supply chains: A

    Business plays a key role in eliminating modern slavery from supply chains. Empirical business research on modern slavery in supply chains is an emerging field. This systematic review offers a hybrid of bibliometric and thematic analysis. 10 key trends in the research on modern slavery in supply chains are identified.

  22. A Review of Modern Slavery in Britain: Understanding the Unique

    A lack of engagement with the complexity of modern slavery; a lack of knowledge, training and expertise; and a lack of comprehensive guidance result in poor outcomes for BVs. Overall, the findings of this article are important in recognizing that the needs of BVs are currently not adequately met.