In its intention to suppress migration flows, the US government wants to create a stable and effective law-enforcement process driven by the fundamental forces of capitalism. In such mechanism, for-profit detention companies such as GEO and CoreCivic, play a pivotal role. Their methods have much in common with slavery practice,...

Who would have thought that slavery is still alive and well within the 21st century when more or less civilized parts of the world have long abandoned any kinds of discrimination practices against humans? As of 2010, human trafficking was estimated #31.6 billion of international trade per annum (Haken 8)....

Slavery in Africa differed in some dramatic ways from the new forms of slavery that developed in the New World. One of the starkest differences had to do with racial composition. While most people think of slavery in terms of the New World Model, where a dominant racial group enslaved...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is an interesting book about the experiences of a slave who was taken from African and shipped to the Americas. This work is a primary source, meaning that it was written by a person who experienced a certain time. With that...

The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 turned to be one of the most significant events in the history of America. Though being rather simple in its mechanism, this machine triggered dramatic changes in American society that especially concerned slavery ideology that acquired a new cycle...