Opinion
October 07, 2014 Reegan Hill Opinion
Fair Trade in One Local Community
In reality, everything in our shop has already been paid for. Each artisan is paid for their work up front, in full, and in every case they have received a fair, "living" wage. That is quite different from waiting for a donation, or hoping things sell so that you will be paid eventually.
October 02, 2014 Minh Dang Opinion
Language Matters: Defining Human Trafficking and Slavery
September 30, 2014 John Meekins Opinion
Human Trafficking Behind Bars and Beyond.
Her trafficker told her to tell the buyers she was 18 if asked. She said she could always tell they were sexually aroused by how young she appeared. When they asked her how old she really was, she replied she was “11 years-old.”
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 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 09, 2014 Brooke Hathaway Opinion
