The Diplomat has a good piece on the benefits and the problems with international labor monitoring systems. In short, Uzbekistan is a major cotton exporter, the world's 5th largest. It also used a lot of forced child labor. Companies began boycotting Uzbek cotton until it...
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Above: Slaves in the Thai fishing industry Nestlé, long one of the world's most evil corporations, has finally admitted that much of its fish is procured through slave labor. Migrant.
This is the grave of James Buchanan. Buchanan was arguably the worst president in American history. A follower of Andrew Jackson, with all the commitment to white supremacy that entailed,.
Book Review: Katherine C. Mooney, Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack
In Race Horse Men, Katherine Mooney examines the long history of race from the 1820s to the 1910s through the prism of the racetrack. She effectively argues that this is a great place in which to examine race for two primary reasons. First, wealthy white...
Like the environmental post yesterday, there are a lot of interesting historical posts I've been meaning to talk about. Let's move through them all at once. 1) Extremely expensive dinners.
Conservatives, including the conservative I ended up across the table from last weekend who I told that I wanted the government to invade his home and take his guns, love.
Training future domestic workers, Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, Bordentown, New Jersey Premilla Nadasen has an exciting new book out on the history of domestic worker organizing. I'm looking forward to reading it. Jake Blumgart has an interesting interview with Nadasen, where...
Slaves in Jamaica David Cameron visited Jamaica this week. Presumably, the farmer's pig farmers locked up their stock for the duration. Anyway, Cameron went full Cass Sunstein in his speech.
Michelle Alexander has called the prison system The New Jim Crow for how it replicates the racial discrimination of the past. That's only part of it though becuase a racist.
Slave auction, Charleston, 1856 What's really amazing about Sean Wilentz's self-immolation this week isn't so much that he's decided to become a hack for Hillary Clinton, but how a once-esteemed U.S. historian has shows such willingness to sacrifice good historical analysis in order to be...
On September 11, 1851, African-Americans and abolitionist whites in Christiana, Pennsylvania engaged in violent resistance against a posse of slave catchers riding up from Maryland to retrieve fugitive slaves in.
I have said before that we are in a renaissance of excellent historical writing for a general public that wants to read something more than hagiographic narratives. Add Adam Rothman's.