While right-wingers posture about secession and armed resistance, let's recall how our actual Civil War began
By Steven Lubet Oct 16, 2009
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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
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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
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Using an unusual incentive program, the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation has kept thousands of girls out of slavery.
By Catherine Price
July 24, 2008
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The slave trade sent some Africans running for the hills. Where they got a little stuck.
By Andrew Leonard
June 21, 2007
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Like my father, I love and respect guns. But I'm conflicted.
By Cary Tennis
April 16, 2007
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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
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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
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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
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A master historian argues that Reconstruction ideals, far from reflecting America's deepest values, contradicted them
By Andrew O'Hehir
January 16, 2006
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Senators can take their half-assed lynching apology and shove it.
By Debra J. Dickerson
June 28, 2005
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A new biography removes Abraham Lincoln's halo, revealing a man whose sheer human goodness remains mysterious.
By Laura Miller
February 12, 2002
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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
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The columnist responds to Alicia Montgomery, who dubbed him "the white Al Sharpton."
By David Horowitz
March 19, 2001
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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
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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