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This article discusses the verses of slavery contained in the Koran, contemporary slavery with classical slavery is very different, slavery in the old form where one human being can be owned by another human being can be said to be extinct but the new ...
Ahmad Husein
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The modern slavery wheel as the new theoretical framework
A few research papers on modern slavery have outlined how this phenomenon flourishes and persists despite institutional pressures against inhumane practices.
RODRIGO MARTINS BAPTISTA +3 more
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The UK’s Modern Slavery Legislation: An Early Assessment of Progress
In 2015, the Westminster UK government introduced a Modern Slavery Act described by its proponents as ‘world-leading’. This description was challenged at the time both inside and outside the UK.
Gary Craig
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This article shows how asymmetric information shaped slavery by determining the likelihood of manumission. A theoretical model explains the need to offer positive incentives to slaves working in occupations characterized by a high degree of asymmetric information. As a result, masters freed (and, more generally, rewarded) slaves who performed well. The
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Este artículo examina la denominación de grandes grupos poblacionales en América, como los antiguos esclavos y sus descendientes. El grupo que hoy define el discurso sobre la esclavitud y sus consecuencias suele ser denominado “afros”.
Michael Zeuske
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Human Trafficking and the UK Modern Slavery Bill
This article provides a commentary on growing awareness of human trafficking to and within the United Kingdom and government responses to it.
Gary Craig
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Raj Persaud ( [2003][1]) begins his review of Thomas Szasz’s book Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry by asserting that something false is true: ‘Thomas Szasz became famous for being at the vanguard of the anti-psychiatry movement’.
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Caste Slavery and Atlantic Slavery
The article states that caste and race have a long history of interrelationships and their integral parts of discrimination, oppression and slavery.
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The Sierra Club: Environmental Activism and US Empire, 1892–1900
Formed in 1892, the Sierra Club (SC) is the oldest US environmental organization concerned with the environment within US borders and beyond. Yet, to date, the Club has not received much attention from historians.
Dean Clay
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality [PDF]
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words,
Arcangelo Dimico, Graziella Bertocchi
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