Juneteenth 2019: An Essential Reading List
Highlights from Pacific Standard's coverage of racial inequality and the state of reparations in America.
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Slavery
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One Reason Why White People in Southern States Still Have a Higher Rate of Bias Against Black Americans
New research finds that white Americans are more likely to hold unconscious biases against black Americans if their home region was once heavily dependent on slavery.
Inside the Land Rights Struggle for the Descendants of Runaway Slaves in Brazil
Communities made up of fugitive slave descendants have been forced from their lands and denied their rights, a situation that may only get worse under newly elected president Jair Bolsonaro.
In 1850, Moderates in Congress Stressed Comity—and Brought on the Civil War
Stephen E. Maizlish's new book discusses a time much like our own, when radicals in Congress hurled insults while moderates bemoaned a lack of civility.
Taking Freedom: Modern-Day Slavery in America’s Prison Workforce
On the labor issues connected with using inmates as extremely low-paid workers in state and federal prisons.
La Esclavitud Moderna en la Fuerza Laboral en la Prisión de Estados Unidos
Este artículo explica los problemas laborales relacionados con el uso de presos como trabajadores extremadamente mal pagados en las prisiones estatales y federales.
No, the Irish Were Not Slaves Too
Historian Liam Hogan has spent the last six years debunking the Irish slave myth.
The Radical Compassion of Frederick Douglass
Setting the record straight on the abolitionist's 200th birthday.
A Historian of Forgotten Resistance
From pirates to abolitionist dwarves, Marcus Rediker's research tends to unearth radical and oppositional communities.
Ona Judge, the Washingtons, and the Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave
A portrait of George Washington as slave master.