Slavery

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  • Did white slavery exist?

    "These people first had to undergo a racial transformation"
    By June 19, 2000

  • Slaves of a different color

    Historians mostly ignore the fact that some white people, too, were enslaved before the Civil War.
    By Stephan Talty June 15, 2000

  • Slave pay? No way

    "Will there be a new tax based on race, with appropriate discounts for being part African-American?"
    By . June 7, 2000

  • Debt wrong

    David Horowitz is incorrect. It's time for the United States to pay up for slavery.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchison June 5, 2000

  • The latest civil rights disaster

    Ten reasons why reparations for slavery are a bad idea for black people -- and racist too.
    By David Horowitz May 30, 2000

  • Flesh and blood and DNA

    A geneticist sparks outrage with a project to help African-Americans trace their family roots.
    By Arthur Allen May 12, 2000

  • "The Guilt of Nations" by Elazar Barkan

    Are reparations the best way to address slavery, genocide and other past evils?
    By Jonathan Groner May 2, 2000

  • Power play

    What kind of kid would break up with his mother? Mine, apparently.
    By Amy Sunshine March 16, 2000

  • "Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market" by Walter Johnson

    A historian plunges deep into the ugly business of buying and selling slaves.
    By Matthew DeBord February 24, 2000

  • Chinese wife-enslavers executed

    Six merchants were put to death last week for selling poor women to northern Chinese farmers.
    By Hank Hyena December 9, 1999

  • James Dickey's relative restoring cemetery (AP)

    Saving the historic graveyard is a gesture of racial reconciliation and respect aimed at squaring the past.
    By Patricia J. Mays June 1, 1999

  • Secret America

    When presidents, both living and dead, can't even keep their DNA private, there is no realm we can call our own.
    By Steve Erickson December 9, 1998

  • Terrible swift sword

    David Bowman reviews "Cloudsplitter," Russell Banks' effort at the Great American Novel, an ambitious resurrection of the life and times of anti-slavery crusader John Brown.
    By David Bowman December 3, 1998

  • Beloved

    Jonathan Demme panders to Toni Morrison's guilt mongering in his brutal adaptation of 'Beloved'.
    By Charles Taylor October 16, 1998

  • Spanking: A black mother's view

    The survival legacy of slavery taught blacks to spank more than whites -- and that's why you don't see as many black kids having public tantrums.
    By Karen Grigsby Bates October 7, 1998

  • Slaves in the family

    A white man's odyssey into his family's secret history is a searing look at the most shameful event in America's past.
    By Maryanne Vollers February 27, 1998

  • In praise of William Jefferson Clinton

    RUB YOUR EYES IN DISBELIEF, BUT DAVID HOROWITZ THINKS THE MAN FROM HOPE HAS HELPED BRING THIS NATION BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.
    By David Horowitz January 12, 1998

  • Not just the color of our skin

    It's time for blacks to acknowledge that their experience of oppression does not set them apart from the human race, argues writer Hugh Pearson.
    By Hugh Pearson April 6, 1996
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