Slavery

Honoring Nat Turner’s rebellion − a blow against slavery

August 21 marks the 190th anniversary of the bold, courageous insurrection against the genocidal system of enslavement led by Nat…

August 20, 2021

Black labor: From chattel slavery to wage slavery, Part 2

The following is excerpted from Chapter 2 of Marcy’s “High Tech, Low Pay: A Marxist analysis of the changing character…

February 14, 2020

WW commentary: Spirit of Harper’s Ferry raid lives on

This is a slightly edited version of this article (subheads were added), published on Oct 21, 2009, in Workers World.…

February 14, 2020

Black labor: From chattel slavery to wage slavery, Part 1

By Sam Marcy The following is excerpted from Chapter 2 of  Marcy’s “High Tech, Low Pay: A Marxist analysis of…

February 11, 2020

Black students at Princeton Theological Seminary demand reparation for school’s slavery connections

Black students at Princeton Theological Seminary say it’s time for the institution to repent for its reliance on the 19th…

April 3, 2019

At Texas construction site, grim discovery of prison/plantation slavery

Houston — Almost 100 graves have been uncovered in Sugar Land, Texas, a Houston suburb that was once a sugar…

August 29, 2018

South Carolina prisoners demand: ‘End prison slavery’

This is an excerpt from an interview conducted after an April 15 rebellion at Lee Correctional Institution, a South Carolina…

August 20, 2018

Slavery and July 4th

The Declaration of Independence is Philadelphia’s proudest claim to fame. It was written by the Virginia slave master and future…

July 7, 2017

Filipino Women Against Modern Day Slavery

The Atlantic magazine published an article in the June 2017 issue entitled, “My Family’s Slave,” by journalist Alex Tizon.  His…

June 6, 2017

African Burial Ground exposes slavery

Yes, slavery existed in the North, too. New York was one of the largest centers of slaveholding in the U.S.…

February 5, 2015