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Juneteenth: What is the historically important day and how did it start?

Thousands of enslaved people in Texas were ordered free two years after Emancipation Proclamation

The Independent UK

Believing the Big Lie won’t make it true

Some beliefs are not based on facts, and some people hold beliefs in spite of the facts.

Chicago Sun-Times

Juneteenth: What is the historically important day and how did it start?

Thousands of enslaved people in Texas were ordered free two years after Emancipation Proclamation

The Independent UK

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Documents rediscovered: Sojourner Truth's fight to save son

Recently uncovered court documents from 1828 related to noted abolitionist Sojourner Truth will be on display after almost two centuries

The Independent UK

Yazidi women survivors of ISIL crimes yet to find justice

Iraqi Yazidi women survivors of ISIL sexual slavery still have no knowledge of what happened to their missing family.

Al Jazeera

Commentary: Forced prison labor continues to enslave Black Americans

As Juneteenth celebrations and paraphernalia begin to litter our social timelines, we must remember that slavery has yet to be truly abolished. To this day, in prisons and jails across the country, government agencies and corporations legally exploit forced prison labor thanks to an exception baked into the 13th Amendment…

Chicago Tribune

Scotland should address its historic role in slavery, says expert group

SCOTLAND should create a dedicated space to address its historic role in slavery and colonialism, an expert group has suggested.

The National (Scotland)

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Trumpism without Trump: Still dangerous

Trump's 2020 "Lost Cause" ideology has taught Republicans how to seize power — and they may not need him anymore

Salon

Priti Patel could rip up Tories' own modern slavery laws to force people to Rwanda

The Tory Home Secretary is said to be appointing a reviewer of the Modern Slavery Act - which Theresa May said was the 'great human rights issue of our time' - to prevent lawyers using it to stop deportation flights

Daily Mirror

Survivors fight back against trafficking

Modern slavery in its many forms is big business - from underage girls being forced into marriage or sold for the sex trade - but survivors are speaking up.

AAP

Perthshire slave who fought for freedom will be honoured at new City Hall museum

Joseph Knight’s prolonged battle to secure his liberty was key to the abolition of slavery in Scotland and he will be remembered in a specially commissioned banner at the £26.5million attraction

Daily Record

Involuntary servitude on the ballot

Welcome to the Tuesday, June 7, Brew.

Ballotpedia

Stopping slavery and exploitation needs you – trafficking investigator

Submissions to the Government's modern slavery and worker exploitation proposals close this week. A former human trafficking investigator says change needs all NZers to work together,

Newsroom.co.nz

‘I see this money as not mine’: the people giving away fortunes from slavery and fossil fuels

What would you do if your inherited wealth was built on slavery, fossil fuels or came at the price of neglect? Meet the guilty rich who want nothing to do with their money

The Guardian - UK

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Ballotpedia

Louisiana voters to decide in November on constitutional amendment to remove language that allows involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime

Louisiana voters will decide in November on a constitutional amendment that would remove language from the state constitution that allows involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. The amendment would also add language to say that the section of the constitution prohibiting slavery and involuntary servitude “does not apply to…

The Conversation

US moves to rename Army bases honoring Confederate generals who fought to defend slavery

For decades, nine U.S. Army bases have carried the names of men who fought against the U.S. Army – in a war waged to defend and perpetuate the slavery of people of African descent.

The Conversation

'I said no' – Nie's refusal and the troubling question of Pacific slavery in Australia

In 1881 Nie (also known as Nai), a Pacific Islander woman, walked off “Virginia” plantation, south of Maryborough, in the colony of Queensland.

WEKU

How can California provide reparations? A new report suggests several ways

The report recommends ways to address the "lingering negative effects" of slavery — from policing reforms to housing grants to increased voting access to free tuition.

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Reason

Slippery Slope Arguments in History: David Hume

From Hume's Of the Liberty of the Press (1742): It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom that it must steal in upon them by degrees and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes…

The Conversation

Modern-day struggle at James Madison's plantation Montpelier to include the descendants' voices of the enslaved

On May 17, 2022, after weeks of negative stories on Montpelier in the national press, the foundation that operates the Virginia plantation home of James Madison finally made good on its promise to share authority with descendants of people enslaved by the man known as “the father” of the U.S.…

Tribune News Service

Editorial: How Harvard could really help historically Black colleges

Giving back what isn’t yours is a fundamental way of righting a wrong. Admitting mistakes and making amends is another. These are not controversial statements. But when it comes to American history and the fraught question of who profited from slavery and what, if anything, should be done about it…

The Independent UK

In Georgia, 2 Black candidates to compete for Senate seat

Georgia still struggles with its history of slavery, segregation and racial injustice, but voters in the Deep South state have for the first time selected two Black candidates to represent the major parties in a U.S. Senate race

The Independent UK

Victim’s pride at helping to jail ‘dangerous’ modern slavery gang

The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the PA news agency the gang ‘did lots of bad stuff.

The Independent UK

Gang who ran brothels jailed on modern slavery and trafficking offences

Police identified at least 300 potential victims of organised crime group run by husband and wife in London and Essex

Daily Mirror

England superstar Maro Itoje says he won't sing anthem anymore - "I was naive"

Maro Itoje has spoken out against England rugby anthem 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot', which has roots in American slavery, and has said he will no longer promote the song

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