By Robert E. Wright, Paul Coverdell Distinguished Visiting Fellow of Policy Studies, Georgia College, Fall 2020 The pandemic’s direct toll on the world’s 40 million or so modern slaves will never be known with certainty but will be disproportionately...
How the African Slave Trade Helped to Stymie African Financial Development By Dr. Robert E. Wright Economists Ross Levine, Chen Lin, and Wensi Xie have put out an important new paper that unfortunately resides behind the pay wall of...
“Thoughts on Teaching: Why Modern Slavery Belongs in a History of Slavery” By Dr. Sara Lampert, University of South Dakota It was drizzling, threatening to rain, but that stopped no one. Students streamed across the quad to the coyote...
Disney, “Pirates of the Caribbean,” and Human Trafficking By Michael Todd Landis On June 29, 2017, the Walt Disney Company announced on its Disney Parks Blog that dramatic changes were coming to the beloved (and inspiration for five blockbuster...
“Enslaved Children, ‘Rescue Fantasies,’ and the Problem of ‘Innocence’” by Dr. Anna Mae Duane Donald Trump, at some point during his visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, was shown a pair of manacles designed...
Art for Abolitionists: How I Joined the Fight Against Human Trafficking By Callen Buchanan [Ms. Buchanan is a high school student in Vinton, VA who organized a charitable event to raise money to combat human trafficking. Her event received...
HAS-UK Kick-Off! Beginning in the era of the American Revolution, and even with the Quakers before that, the abolition movement was a transatlantic phenomenon. Whether in the era of Anthony Benezet and Granville Sharp or of William Lloyd Garrison...
On Saturday, October 10, 2015, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. hosted an important and energizing event in the history of antislavery in the 21st century. Stacy Jewell Lewis, a survivor of 2 years’ worth of being trafficked as...
Guest Post by Calvin Schermerhorn It’s useful to view the ordeals of Solomon Northup in light of modern human trafficking. At first blush, the nineteenth-century odyssey of an African American New Yorker kidnapped and sold into chattel slavery under...