Slavery – Page 7 – People's World

400 years after slavery’s start, economic band-aids won’t solve racial divide

August 27, 2019 By Jessicah Pierre

I It’ll take bold structural reform and the political will to finally achieve economic justice for African Americans, because clearly ending slavery wasn’t enough.

1619 anniversary: Black freedom struggle made U.S. more democratic for all

August 21, 2019 By Rev. Jesse Jackson

Blacks suffered under slavery for 250 years, and brutal racial apartheid for a century more. We have been legally free for just 50.

Wealth, poverty in Zacatecas: Two sides of the same silver coin

December 18, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

Irony runs deep in Zacatecas: The state’s Latin motto is “Labor vincit omnia”—Work conquers all, including its people.

The other 4th of July: Slavery’s defeat was second American Revolution

July 3, 2018 By Denise Winebrenner Edwards

The stakes of the second American Revolution were as great as those of 1776. When Grant’s troops marched into Vicksburg, they broke the back of slavery.

Louisiana’s Angola: Proving ground for racialized capitalism

June 25, 2018 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Capitalism was and is married to white supremacy. If any place shows that, it's Louisiana's Angola.