Di Vishal Wilde. Originale pubblicato il 10 agosto 2017 con il titolo Reparations from Historical Slavery Could be Used to End Modern Slavery. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. La schiavitù storica e le sue conseguenze attuali sono tra gli argomenti più controversi e drammatici. È diffusa l’opinione che i discendenti degli africani ridotti in schiavitù durante…

One of the most emotional and difficult topics in contemporary discourse is the history of slavery and its lingering legacy. A common proposal for addressing slavery is reparations, compensatory payments to the descendants of Africans who had been enslaved as part of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The arguments for reparations are regularly met with two…

“Texas’s prisoners are the slaves of today, and that slavery affects our society economically, morally and politically,” stated the five-page letter put out by the Industrial Workers of the World’s Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) announcing the prison strike. “Beginning on April 4, 2016, all inmates around Texas will stop all labor in order to…