The legacy of chattel slavery persists in the lives Black people all over world. current state race relations Bermuda is shaped by underlying features European domination and imperialism that gave birth to slavery. racial climate an example long-term impact system controls followed. damaging consequences these systems exploitation oppression continue shape life chances opportunities people. Rac...

Work in rural properties conditions similar to slavery remains a reality many countries, including Brazil. The Brazilian State characterises contemporary slave labour as condition of freedom restriction for paying off debt, served by intensive working hours or inadequate related Occupational Safety and Health. This study highlights the Brazil, based on Health perspective. was carried out sample...

Capital punishment in the United States is racialized: those convicted of murder Whites are much more likely to receive death penalty than for Blacks. commonly practiced places where lynching Blacks occurred frequently and states which slavery was legal as 1860. Accordingly, scholars have debated whether capital reflects a legacy or slavery. Our analysis shows that on its own significant predic...

The COVID-19 pandemic increased modern slavery risk around the world, including in operations and supply chains of Australian businesses. This article thematically analyses a sample available business statements under Australia’s Modern Slavery Act to assess how they engaged with risks due COVID-19. Overall, acknowledged that had through rapidly altered chain profiles, urgent demand for items s...

This research contrasts James Madison’s perception of slavery during the Revolutionary War and years following his retirement from public service through personal correspondence. Most historical done on Madison emphasizes work Constitution tenure as President United States. paper eschews those periods instead favors timeframes when was able to engage with not a political institution, but moral ...

Haitians have been battered from all sides for centuries, almost without respite, with horrors ranging from slavery to extortion, widespread corruption, a cholera epidemic, abject poverty, crumbling infrastructure, hurricanes, and massive earthquakes. Especially when building on rubble, and with needs far outweighing funding, both immediate crises and long term challenges can be overwhelming. U...

ABOARD THE HUDIBRAS IN 1786, in the course of a harrowing journey from Africa to America, a popular woman died in slavery. Although she was “universally esteemed” among her fellow captives as an “oracle of literature,” an “orator,” and a “songstress,” she is anonymous to historians because the sailor on the slave ship who described her death, the young William Butterworth, did not record her na...

In 1985, Deborah Gray White wrote A’rn’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South, arguably one of the most important works in American social history. White related a simple story – the routine of enslaved black women’s lives, and the dangers and opportunities found in that mundanity. Historiographically, A’rn’t I a Woman? pushed back against scholars like Herbert Gutman and Eugene Gen...

T raffi cking is in the news. It is on the political agenda, both nationally and internationally. Thousands of individuals, hundreds of groups, dozens of newspapers are determined to stamp it out. This focus on traffi cking consistently refl ects and reinforces deep public concern about prostitution/sex work, and also about immigration, and the abuse and exploitation it so frequently involves. ...