The Confederate Flag’s Gone, But Slavery’s Still Here
150 Years After Emancipation, the U.S. is Still Struggling to End Human Trafficking
What is slavery, and what does it have to do with America today?
Most people in the U.S. understand that slavery was the condition black people were forced into before the end of the Civil War. That’s entirely understandable: The United States became the largest slave society in the Atlantic World in the mid-19th century, and those bonded men, women, and children were of African descent. Indeed, I first heard of slavery from my mother’s stories of the brutality her ancestors suffered on the land she grew up on—and we …
