Sex Trafficking ~~ The Conversation

 https://theconversation.com/sex-trafficking-isnt-what-you-think-4-myths-debunked-and-1-real-world-way-to-prevent-sexual-exploitation-158852

~~ and ~~

 https://theconversation.com/4-questions-answered-on-sex-trafficking-in-the-us-120098

America’s Gun Obsession is Rooted in Slavery ~~ Carol Anderson

https://www.blackagendareport.com/americas-gun-obsession-rooted-slavery

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Retracing Slavery’s Trail of Tears ~~ Edward Ball; Photographs by Wayne Lawrence

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/slavery-trail-of-tears-180956968/

~~ posted for Collectivist ~~

America’s forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South

End the Subminimum Tipped Wage ~~ REBEKAH ENTRALGO

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/12/end-the-subminimum-tipped-wage/

Statue of Liberty Wears Chains and Shackles Honoring Freed Slaves ~~ Sharon Kyle

https://www.laprogressive.com/statue-of-liberty-wears-chains-and-shackles/

~~ posted for Collectivist ~~

The Nation’s New Crime Boss ~~ JOHN DAVIS

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/20/the-nations-new-crime-boss/

~~ posted for Collectivist ~~

A great deal of energy was expended recently to influence who would be the next president of the criminal enterprise that is the United States of America. The nation’s criminality was established historically by its extermination of indigenous populations inconvenient to its imperial goals and its enslavement of Africans expressly imported into the country under hideous conditions for the further ease and enrichment of the already wealthy. Although these were crimes initiated long before the formal constitution of the U.S., when the slave trade was belatedly outlawed in 1808, slaves were bred in the Upper South and driven in chains across the country or shipped down the Mississippi to be sold in the Deep South. There, they joined their brothers and sisters in an industrialized system of enforced labor cruelly driven by the whip. The expansion of cotton across the south required the removal of Indian tribes who lived on the land the plantation owners wished to cultivate. Their forced removal included documented acts of genocide.

We Can’t Be Free Until We Fully Abolish Slavery ~~ Michele Bratcher Goodwin

Keeping an eye on present day American slavery...

https://blackagendareport.com/we-cant-be-free-until-we-fully-abolish-slavery

Through a loophole in the 13th Amendment, governments and corporations profit from cheap, incarcerated labor.

Liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army

A couple of articles on the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army 75 years ago (before Jan 2020)

http://www.pcp.pt/en/75-years-liberation-auschwitz-soviet-army

~~ by the Portuguese Communist Party ~~

Today we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Army's liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, where more than one million and one hundred thousand human beings were systematically murdered in the gas chambers, by hunger and disease, in the shootings and under torture.

Prison Slavery in the United States - 13th Amendment to the Constitution

Two pieces on prison slavery in Amerika: a link to an IWW organization of prison workers, the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committed, that is fighting to end prison slavery; and then an article on the origins of prison slavery in Amerika

The (Incomplete) List of U.S. Companies and Universities That Benefited from Black Slavery

 Posted by Collectivist

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/the-incomplete-list-of-us-companies-and-universities-that-benefited-from-black-slavery/

Written by agabond

"Americans tend to think that only the South or only slavetraders and slave owners benefited from slavery."

But it was not that simple. Slaves and land were the main forms of wealth in the US before 1860. Therefore slaves figured in insurance policies and bank loans. Therefore universities turned to slave owners and slave traders to raise money. Industry in the North and in Britain made money processing slave-grown tobacco, cotton and sugar from the South and the Caribbean. Railway companies used slave labour. The most profitable activity on Wall Street was – the slave trade.