Showing posts with label slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slavery. Show all posts
Sunday, July 13, 2025

The repugnance of slavery (1847)--an open letter

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  The civil war was preceded by a schism among Northern and Southern Baptists over the institution of slavery.  The recent rediscovery of a...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Roland Fryer on the Economics of Slavery (in the WSJ)

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  The Economics of Slavery Probing the incentives and institutions that kept slavery alive can help us value what freedom means ,  by Roland...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Human trafficking conviction in England, in kidney case-""the consent of the person trafficked is no defense."

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 The BBC has the story, which is apparently the first such conviction for kidney trafficking under Britain's anti-slavery law. Reading t...
Sunday, October 4, 2020

Grocery supply chains: TNR reviews "The Secret Life of Groceries"

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 The New Republic reviews  The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket , by Benjamin Lorr,  (It tells you mor...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Modern slavery, in supply chains and around the world

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The Global Slavery Index recently issued its report for 2018. They say : "In the context of this report, modern slavery covers a set...
Monday, February 5, 2018

Cadavers and the slave trade

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The NY Times has an article on the intersection of the slave trade in the United States with the market for cadavers for anatomy classes in...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Repugnant markets watch: ISIS institutionalizes a market for sex slaves (NY Times)

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The NY Times has a long article on sex slavery in the Islamic State, by Rukmini Callimachi, including some detail about the market's ru...
Friday, July 4, 2014

Modern slavery: The State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report 2014

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Read it and weep. Trafficking in Persons Report 2014 Related news story and editorial: U.S. Gives Thailand and Malaysia Lowest Grade on...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Repugnant transactions in Nigeria: education, kidnapping and slavery

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The news out of Nigeria has too many repugnant transactions to shake a stick at. The Islamic organization Boko Haram, whose name apparently...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Slavery around the world in 2013

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This ancient, repugnant transaction is not abolished yet, according to the Global Slavery Index 2013 , published by the Walk Free Foundatio...
Monday, September 2, 2013

Sex trafficking from Nepal to India

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This story from the NY Times reports on sex trafficking in which at least some women are kidnapped and involuntarily sold to brothels:  Wom...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

The resale market for babies

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The BBC reports:  Indonesian babies held hostage by unpaid midwives "There are lots of cases where, if the mother can't pay, the ...
Friday, January 7, 2011

Slavery in the U.S.

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At the conference I'm attending in Finland, there's been a good deal of discussion (with more to come) of repugnant transactions, wi...
Monday, May 3, 2010

The slave trade had sellers as well as buyers

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In a NY Times oped, Ending the Slavery Blame-Game , Henry Louis Gates Jr. writes about the slave trade. "While we are all familiar with...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Changes in repugnant transactions are sometimes gradual

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Years from now we may look back on the gradual change in the status of same sex marriage , for example, or the ability of gays and lesbians ...
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