The movement’s lawyers want detailed language delineating what constitutes involuntary servitude so courts can be compelled to defend prisoners’ rights against forced labor. At the same time, ...

The history wars – the battle over how we teach our country’s past – are raging. The United States is confronting the legacies of slavery as never before. This national reconsideration has been ...

Juneteenth being declared a federal holiday in the United States and Emancipation Day being officially recognized on Aug. 1 in Canada demonstrate significant progress towards creating more equitable ...

Thomas L. Krannawitter, Ph.D., a former professor, is co-founder of The Vino & Veritas Society, which is devoted to forming a Declaration of Independence culture in America. His many books include ...

The late 18th- and early 19th-century campaign to end slavery in the British Empire, Adam Hochschild argues, “forged virtually every important tool used by citizens’ movements in democratic countries ...

Agnoli writes about restoring the relation of the paths to the goal, the means-end relationship, towards an emancipatory communism. Emancipation: Paths and Goals appeared in What is to be Done?

The study of Jane Austen’s novels, many of them about 200 years old, is never complete. And neither is the excavation of the beloved author’s personal life. Austen’s personal values – namely, whether ...

June 16 (UPI) --Juneteenth being declared a federal holiday in the United States and Emancipation Day being officially recognized on Aug. 1 in Canada demonstrate significant progress toward creating ...