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Chattel Slavery
What’s Behind Your Cup of Tea?
70,000 cups of tea are consumed globally every second! As the world’s top beverage after water, learn how this massive industry is key in combatting unfair labor practices.
Top Countries for Modern-Day Slavery: Part II
January 2, 2018 Our December 18th blog detailed the five countries where modern-day slavery is most prevalent. In Part II …
The Reason for the Late Tax Day this Year
Every year Washington DC celebrates Emancipation Day to commemorate President Lincoln signing the DC Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862 which ended slavery in Washington DC, freed 3,100 people and reimbursed those who had legally owned them and offered the newly freed people money to emigrate.
Part 3: A Call to Action
When thinking about moving forward in the movement towards atoning slavery, Social Movement Theory lends a helpful hand. The theory describes four stages: emergence, coalescence, bureaucratization, and decline. This movement’s stage…
Part 2: Connections between Chattel Slavery and Modern-Day Human Trafficking
Although the Justice for Chattel Slavery and Anti-trafficking movements have yet to work together on eradicating slavery and the historical imprint of slavery in our society, there is a stark connection between the two movements in the US.
Reckoning with History: the Atlantic Slave Trade at American Universities
During the antebellum period, slaves built and were sold to fund some of the United States’ most prestigious universities. It was not until the 2000’s that these institutions began to acknowledge and come to terms with this part of their past.