It is a historically rich site that physically connects centuries of the transatlantic slave trade to the people it enslaved. And now the Alabama Historical ... his family’s history from his ...
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Alabama Is Preserving the Last Slave Ship to Reach U.S. ShoresBeneath Alabama’s Mobile River rests a relic of American history: the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to reach U.S. shores. Illegally smuggling 110 enslaved Africans in 1860, decades after ...
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No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a ...
Alabama profits off prisoners safe enough to work at McDonald’s, deems them too dangerous for parole
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) No state has a longer, more profit-driven history ... Alabama shifted its strategy when industries began to modernize and mechanize, said Douglas Blackmon, whose book ...
LOS ANGELES — The national movement to close a so-called slavery loophole in state constitutions was riding a wave of momentum after voters in eight states — including deep-red Alabama and ...
No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. Best ...
Other states, including Alabama, Oregon ... For one thing, it is a reminder that California has a history of slavery, too, despite being imagined as a “free state.” As a legal historian ...
But as I discuss in my recent book, “Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery,” many enslaved ... from Birmingham, Alabama, to Brazil. Consider the example of Solomon Northup ...
Alan Spears, NPCA’s senior director of cultural resources, offers a winter reading list on people and places that shaped our ...
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