Slavery

Miners in Butte, Montana, photographed in 1900. Butte and other parts of the Mountain West have a proud Irish history. But the myth spreading on far-right corners of social media that white Irish were once enslaved in the Americas is false.

Despite Claims By Far Right, White Irish Were Never Enslaved

Nate Hegyi

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Novelist Esi Edugyan On Black Genius And What Comes After Slavery

Steve Inskeep

The author of Man Booker Prize finalist Washington Black began her new book on a plantation in 1830s Barbados. "I really have no idea where my story is going at the outset of it," she says.

Colorado voters are being asked if they want to make a change to the state constitution to prohbit "slavery and involuntary sevitude in all circumstances."

Colorado Could Become First State To Completely Abolish Slavery

Ali Budner

Kanye West just made news with his hard-to-follow tweets on the 13th amendment . Meanwhile, Colorado is focused on possibly changing a state version of...