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...This is the great human rights challenge of our generation, and in order for us to face that challenge and actually finally eradicate slavery??which I think is something we can do in a generation—it takes leaders,” said E. Benjamin Skinner, a Carr Center fellow and another research adviser. “And what better place to train leaders than Harvard University...
...argument—that the Civil War was caused more by economic changes than the glaring issue of slavery??goes to the heart of a historiographical tendency that Egnal rightly sees as dangerous. People have come to see slavery as the cause of the war, he argues, because this provides them with a comforting myth that helps present the history of the United States as simply the progress of liberty and democracy. The Civil War won’t go away, because it shines a light on America that can be troubling, but this problem must be reconciled...
...students stop to consider who occupied Old Yard, but an examination of Harvard’s past reveals a history of entanglements with slavery??a history that is just now coming to light because of a four-person research seminar taught this fall by History professor Sven Beckert...
Banner’s sequel embodies the redemptive themes of its predecessor. At times MTA2’s spiteful rhymes and often tuneless tunes uncomfortably evoke thoughts of slavery??functional, slow and relentless like dirges, with scarred chants serving as choruses. There’s little time for bling-bling hedonism; at best Banner and clique wallow in their grim depravity with a smirk. Crunk ballads (!) such as “My Lord” are overshadowed by workhorse tracks like “Crank It Up” and the “Like A Pimp?...
...cocoa that goes into the chocolate consumed in the U.S. is produced in similarly deplorable conditions in West Africa and Central America. The International Labor Organization and the U.S. government have both recognized the existence of the use of child trafficking and forced labor—essentially child slavery??in cocoa production in the Ivory Coast. The State Department has reported that child slaves in West Africa number in the thousands. Many work 12-hour days, and physical beatings are common...