Slavery

Remembering the roots of a real Civil War Remembering the roots of a real Civil War

While right-wingers posture about secession and armed resistance, let's recall how our actual Civil War began
By Steven Lubet Oct 16, 2009

  • Huckabee compares abortion to slavery

    In a speech to an anti-abortion group, the former Arkansas governor says the moral reasoning behind abolishing slavery applies today.
    By Vincent Rossmeier March 24, 2009

  • The dark history of burned flesh

    Drop those spareribs, imperialist pig-eaters! A new book argues that the great American barbecue smolders on the coals of genocidal racism.
    By Andrew Leonard August 30, 2008

  • It takes a piglet

    Using an unusual incentive program, the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation has kept thousands of girls out of slavery.
    By Catherine Price July 24, 2008

  • Not quite Americans

    Sexual assault, enslavement, no medical care -- Peter Orner, author of an oral history of illegal immigrants, discusses the nightmares experienced by this vulnerable population.
    By Whitney Joiner June 11, 2008

  • Modern slaves

    Hardly a thing of the past, slavery thrives in our world. Investigative reporter Benjamin Skinner tells Salon the shocking truth about human trafficking.
    By Hannah Wallace March 27, 2008

  • Of Ph.D.s, gay lovers, slave narratives and the Ivy League

    I have a choice of two schools for my doctorate; one is ranked 63 and the other is ranked 90. Which should I choose -- and what about my boyfriend?
    By Cary Tennis March 20, 2008

  • The rhetoric of slavery and climate change

    Then: Abolition would wreak havoc on the economy of the South. Now: Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol would punish all Americans.
    By Andrew Leonard February 27, 2008

  • The destiny of bad geography

    The slave trade sent some Africans running for the hills. Where they got a little stuck.
    By Andrew Leonard June 21, 2007

  • I'm almost 21. Should I buy some guns?

    Like my father, I love and respect guns. But I'm conflicted.
    By Cary Tennis April 16, 2007

  • "Amazing Grace"

    Not only is Michael Apted's historical drama about an anti-slavery activist lively and funny -- it stars a serious dreamboat. Huzzah!
    By Stephanie Zacharek February 23, 2007

  • Venus abused

    In the early 1800s, Westerners leered at Saartjie Bartmaan's curvy body and exotic skin. But do we gawk any less today?
    By Marisa Meltzer January 9, 2007

  • "A Million Nightingales"

    In an excerpt from Susan Straight's new novel, a mixed-race slave girl tries to outwit her captors.
    By Susan Straight March 18, 2006

  • Freedom and equality: Un-American activities

    A master historian argues that Reconstruction ideals, far from reflecting America's deepest values, contradicted them
    By Andrew O'Hehir January 16, 2006

  • Too damn little, too damn late

    Senators can take their half-assed lynching apology and shove it.
    By Debra J. Dickerson June 28, 2005

  • When freedom was the "peculiar institution"

    Adam Hochschild talks about how the abolitionist movement caught fire -- from the high seas to the kitchen pantry -- and changed the world forever.
    By Priya Jain January 19, 2005

  • Dark side of a sea dog

    Legendary rogue John Hawkyns roamed the high seas for Queen Elizabeth, defeating the Spanish Armada, adventuring in the West Indies -- and pioneering the nefarious trade that would send millions of Africans into slavery.
    By Peter L'Official November 22, 2004

  • Letters

    Haven't white Southerners suffered enough? Anyway, slavery is irrelevant to the plot (and geography) of "Cold Mountain." Readers respond to Stephanie Zacharek's review.
    January 5, 2004

  • Founding sinners

    While Thomas Jefferson never freed his slaves, George Washington did, despite his wife's wishes. Historians are finally coming to terms with America's oldest wound.
    By Laura Miller November 25, 2003

  • The never ending war over slavery

    A new exhibit at the Museum of the Confederacy tells of slaves who supported slavery. But if former Gov. Doug Wilder's dream comes true, the nation's first slavery museum will tell a different -- and harsher -- story.
    By Louise Witt May 27, 2003

  • Better than a saint

    A new biography removes Abraham Lincoln's halo, revealing a man whose sheer human goodness remains mysterious.
    By Laura Miller February 12, 2002

  • Islam's black slaves

    The author of a book on the 1,400-year history of the other slave trade talks about the power of eunuchs, the Nation of Islam's falsehoods and the persistence of slavery today.
    By Suzy Hansen April 5, 2001

  • This is beyond libel. It is surreal

    The columnist responds to Alicia Montgomery, who dubbed him "the white Al Sharpton."
    By David Horowitz March 19, 2001

  • Late night with David Horowitz

    The conservative columnist defends his views in the former Mecca of free speech. No chairs are thrown, but a mike mysteriously goes dead.
    By Cary Tennis March 16, 2001

  • Horowitz: "I'm not a racial provocateur"

    The Salon columnist charges that Joan Walsh, in her defense of his anti-reparations ad campaign, belittled him as a "racial provocateur" and publicity hound.
    By David Horowitz March 13, 2001
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