(Images: Lucasfilm)R2-D2 and C-3PO are cute, often... ...r Wars. After all, it's set in a society in which slavery is morally acceptable. But it gets worse. Last ex... ...is an eager supporter of the vile institution of slavery :We see the same general attitude toward droids in... ...aining a labor force, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/01/Argument-The-Droids-of-Star-Wars-Are-Slaves/Hampton, Virginia, was once the site of Fort Monroe, a Union base during the Civil War. At the beginning of the war, three Virginia slaves went to the fort to request asylum. However, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, a fe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/19/Archaeologists-Unearth-Civil-War-Refuge-for-Escaped-Slaves/Florida has always been different. Now known as Am... ...United States. That included those escaping from slavery . 4. The First Settlement of Ex-SlavesIn the late...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/18/The-Gift-America-Didnt-Know-It-Wanted-Florida/An interactive map by Andrew Kahn shows the origin... ...rted away from the continent.If you learned about slavery from American history classes and TV, you might b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/28/The-Atlantic-Slave-Trade-in-Two-Minutes/(Photo via Pairie View A&M University)Today, J... ...the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, the day that slavery ended in Texas. Celebrating it is an old traditio... ...d. 200,000 slaves in Texas did much of that work. Slavery was in no way weakened during the war. To the con... ...Proclamation was in full...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/19/150-Years-Ago-Today-The-First-Juneteenth/(Photo: Pascal Radique)Are you a modern, forward-thinking leader who inspires people in the workplace to follow you?No? Then Jerry Toner, a classicist at the University of Cambridge, has advice for you. He's gathered tog...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/22/What-Roman-Slave-Owners-Knew-about-Managing-Staff/A few months ago, we posted a story about how many... ...spent $7 million transforming it into a museum of slavery . Slave quarters, work buildings, and a church hav...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/07/The-Whitney-Plantation-Museum/We can learn about slavery in America by reading books, researching the inte... ...those tours, you might never learn a thing about slavery . In a lengthy article at Collectors Weekly, histo... ...torical geographer E. Arnold Modlin tell us about slavery , the plantations wher...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/01/The-Stories-Told-at-Southern-Plantation-Museums/Atlas Obscura continues their 31 Days of Halloween series with a scary story from Louisiana history.In 1831, Madame Delphine LaLaurie and her third husband Dr. Leonard Louis Nicolas LaLaurie bought a fine house in downto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/19/New-Orleans-Socialite-Serial-Killer/[http://youtu.be/X1IYH_MbJqA] (YouTube link)Azie Mira Dungey worked as a living history character at Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate in Virginia. She regularly answered questions about life as a slave, but some...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/04/Meet-Lizzie-Mae/
