Slavery

Shortcomings And Benefits Of The UN Resolution On Transatlantic Trafficking

April 15, 2026 Jacqueline Luqman, Black Agenda Report. Educate! African Union, Reparations, Slavery, United Nations

The UN General Assembly recently adopted a resolution that designates the trafficking of an estimated 13 million Africans to be condemned to generations of enslavement throughout the European colonies in the Americas as "the gravest crime against humanity." By adopting the resolution, the UN legitimizes demands for reparations, including the immediate return of stolen cultural artifacts, formal apologies, and the establishment of bodies and frameworks in the affected countries to meet those demands.

West Refuses To Condemn Slavery In UN General Assembly Vote

March 26, 2026 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Educate! Collective West, Reparations, Slavery, United Nations

The United Nations General Assembly held a vote on a resolution denouncing the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”. The countries of the political West refused to formally condemn the mass enslavement and trafficking of Africans. The vast majority of UN member states, which are in the Global South, supported the resolution, with 123 votes in favor. All of Europe abstained, except for Serbia. There were 52 abstentions in total. Just three countries voted against the resolution: the United States, Israel, and Argentina’s right-wing regime of Javier Milei.

AU Adopts Landmark Resolution On Slavery, Colonialism, And Reparations

February 21, 2026 Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. Create! African Union, Colonialism, Reparations, Slavery

African heads of state adopted a historic resolution recognizing slavery, deportation, and colonialism as crimes against humanity, marking a major step in Africa’s long-running struggle for historical justice and reparatory redress. The decision was taken at the conclusion of two days of high-level deliberations during the Thirty-Ninth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union, held at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from February 14-15. Leaders considered a comprehensive study examining the legal and moral implications of describing colonization as a crime against humanity and certain acts committed during the era of slavery, deportation, and colonial rule as genocide against African peoples.

Victory For Philly President’s House

February 18, 2026 Betsey Piette, Workers World. Resist! History, Philadelphia, Slavery, Trump Administration

The people won a victory Feb. 16 against President Donald Trump’s campaign to rewrite U.S. history and deny centuries of Black resistance to settler colonial racism when U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe ordered the restoration of a Philadelphia exhibit on enslavement. Under the administration’s orders, on Jan. 22, National Park Service (NPS) workers removed 13 panels about the history of enslavement in the U.S. on display at the historic President’s House. On Jan. 30, the City of Philadelphia challenged Trump’s actions in federal court.

Trump Can’t Erase Black History

February 13, 2026 Betsey Piette, Workers World. Resist! History, Philadelphia, Racism, Slavery, Trump Administration

Philadelphia - Despite broad public opposition, on Jan. 22, National Park Service (NPS) workers carried out orders from President Donald Trump to remove display panels about the history of enslavement in the U.S. at the historic President’s House display in Philadelphia. Trump’s attempts to deny Black history are being challenged by demonstrations, mass Zoom calls and an immediate response from Avenging the Ancestors Coalition (ATAC), the Black-led group responsible for the display’s creation. At a press conference on Jan. 28, Michael Coard, leader of ATAC, stated: “If you are Black in America, you know about slavery.

A Different Revolution

July 5, 2025 Ace Thelin, Consortium News. Educate! Fourth of July, History, Slavery, Wars and Militarism

It’s long past time Americans face the truth about the Founding Fathers. A critique that places events being celebrated on the Fourth of July in a much larger world historical narrative is urgently needed. The power of empire is not only the power to control land, labor, armies and financial industries, but also to control minds. The dominion of the U.S. Empire has turned history upside down. It has transformed some of the biggest criminals into heroes. A history that emphasizes the U.S. as an exemplar of democracy and human rights and holds the constitution as sacrosanct is a history that lies by omission and ignores some of the most important events in its story.

Alabama Voters Banned Prison Slavery But Prisoners Say It Hasn’t Stopped

June 21, 2025 Shaun Traywick, Truthout. Educate! Alabama, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Legal System, Prison Labor, Slavery

In 2022, Alabama became one of the first states in the nation to ban slavery without exception. A constitutional amendment, passed overwhelmingly by voters, removed language that had long allowed involuntary servitude to continue in state prisons — a holdover from the 13th Amendment’s infamous “exception clause.” The 13th Amendment, though widely celebrated at the time for abolishing most forms of slavery, still allows for involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime, and has remained the legal backbone for the vast system of prison labor in the U.S., where incarcerated people can be compelled to work under threat of punishment.

To Fight For Full Liberation, We Need To Recognize That We’re Not Free

June 20, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Black Liberation, Capitalism, Donald Trump, Juneteenth, Racism, Slavery, United States

Amid the chaos of mass protest of Trump administration policies, such as the systematic targeting of immigrant communities, the drive towards potential catastrophic war with Iran, and attacks on free speech, this year marks the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth, a holiday celebrated by Black communities that marks the end of slavery in the US. To mark this day, Peoples Dispatch spoke to Rachel Domond, a young Black organizer and visual artist, who for years has organized Black communities and is a part of the movement for socialism, as a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Black Prisoners Organize For Dignity In Angola

February 24, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Educate! Black History Month, Black Liberation, convict leasing, Criminal Justice and Prisons, History, Louisiana, Mass Incarceration, Racism, Slavery, United States, US prisons

This Black History Month, Peoples Dispatch is exploring the history of the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary, the site of centuries of Black struggle—first against slavery, then convict leasing, and now the US prison system, which some label as slavery in the modern day. At the helm of the US’s notorious system of mass incarceration sits Louisiana State Penitentiary. Apart from being the largest maximum-security prison in the United States, this prison, nicknamed “Angola” after the former plantation site that it sits on, is an example of the conditions of modern-day slavery that the US prison system inflicts upon its disproportionately Black incarcerated population.

Many Wealthy Members Of Congress Are Descendants Of Rich Slaveholders

December 17, 2024 Neil K. R. Sehgal and Ashwini Sehgal, The Conversation. Educate! Congress members, History, Slavery, United States, wealth inequality

The legacy of slavery in America remains a divisive issue, with sharp political divides. Some argue that slavery still contributes to modern economic inequalities. Others believe its effects have largely faded. One way to measure the legacy of slavery is to determine whether the disproportionate riches of slaveholders have been passed down to their present-day descendants. Connecting the wealth of a slaveholder in the 1860s to today’s economic conditions is not easy. Doing so requires unearthing data for a large number of people on slaveholder ancestry, current wealth and other factors such as age and education.

New Jersey’s Legislature Stalled Reparations Inquiry For Years

August 12, 2024 Kimberly Izar, Next City. Strategize! New Jersey (NJ), Reparations, Slavery, Systemic Racism

Shortly after the Ku Klux Klan marched through Newark, New Jersey, in the 1920s, large areas of the city and surrounding communities were redlined by the federal government as investment risks because Black people lived there. The discriminatory practice of redlining locked generations of Black families out of equitable access to jobs, housing, schools, and other wealth-building resources. Redlining built on the legacy of slavery and has since evolved into modern-day segregation, where racially diverse and low-income communities continue to have limited access to economic and public health opportunities.

Tipping Is A Racist Relic

July 12, 2024 Nina Mast, Economic Policy Institute. Educate! Racism, Service Workers, Slavery, The South, Tipping, Worker Rights

In most of the country, workers in restaurants, bars, nail salons, barber shops, and various other service jobs are paid differently than workers in virtually all other occupations. For these workers, a large portion (in many cases all) of their take-home pay comes from gratuity or “tips” provided directly from the customer. While employers of workers in nearly all other occupations must pay at least the minimum wage, federal and most states’ laws establish a lower “subminimum wage” for tipped workers that effectively passes the responsibility for compensating these workers from their employers to their clientele.

California Moves To Ban Forced Prison Labor

July 11, 2024 Giuliana Perrone, Inequality.org. Create! Abolition of Slavery, California, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Human Rights, Slavery

If you’re looking for a rare bit of good news, look no further: California is finally taking steps to abolish slavery from its constitution by banning it in state prisons. On June 27, 2024, the state legislature passed the End Slavery in California Act, teeing up a statewide vote this fall on whether to end forced prison labor in the Golden State. As of now though, California remains among the 16 states that allow the forced servitude of its prisoners. California’s Constitution, like the 13th Amendment, bans involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime. This new amendment would remove that exception, often dubbed the “slavery loophole.”

Frederick Douglass On The Meaning Of July Fourth To The Slave

July 4, 2024 In These Times. Educate! 4th of July, Frederick Douglass, History, Slavery

Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? And am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us? I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you this day rejoice are not enjoyed in common.

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