‘It stops you cold’: the 272 #enslaved people sold to fund #Georgetown

The descendants of #AnnJoice, separated as part of the sale, are at the center of a vital new work of history and journalism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/31/georgetown-college-slavery-272-book-rachel-swarns #Religion #Jesuits #indenture

‘It stops you cold’: the 272 enslaved people sold to fund Georgetown

The descendants of Ann Joice, separated as part of the sale of 272 people, are at the center of a vital new work

The Guardian

#5yrsago When #ZephyrTeachout is elected New York Attorney General, she’s gonna emolumentize Trump right out of the White House https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/nyregion/zephyr-teachout-is-running-for-attorney-general-but-her-real-target-is-trump.html

#5yrsago When should the press pay attention to trolls, lies and disinformation? https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0-EXEC-SUMMARY_Oxygen_of_Amplification_DS.pdf

#5yrsago #WellsFargo: we stole houses and we’re being investigated for dirty low-income housing credits https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-03/wells-fargo-faces-u-s-probe-on-low-income-tax-credit-purchases

#1yrago A TRAP for workers: Oops, we re-invented #indenture https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/04/its-a-trap/#a-little-on-the-nose

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Zephyr Teachout Is Running for Attorney General. But Her Real Target Is Trump.

The law professor and activist challenged Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary in 2014, and is a godmother to the current moment of upstart women candidates.

The New York Times

Read the 63:1 issue of Asia-Pacific Econ History Review for great articles on Aboriginal rugby, arms trafficking to NZ, indentured labour to Fiji, mechanized silk manufacture in Meiji Japan & the VFL stadium in Melbourne! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/2832157x/current

@econhist @economics @sociology @politicalscience @anthropology @ecosocio @devecon #rugby #Indigenous #sport #infrastructure #NZ #Australia #Fiji #Meiji #Japan #Maori #Queensland #indenture #AustralianRules #history #histodons #econtwitter

Forced prison labor put downward pressure on wages at American companies, worsening inequality https://boingboing.net/2018/04/13/chain-gangs-2.html #carceralstate #modernslavery #scholarship #inequality #economics #indenture #History #prison #Post
Forced prison labor put downward pressure on wages at American companies, worsening inequality

Forced prison labor put downward pressure on wages at American companies, worsening inequality

Boing Boing