On June 19, 1865, two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to ensure all enslaved people had been freed following the end of the Civil War. Six months later, slavery in America was officially abolished with the adoption of the 13th Amendment. The following...
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear about reparations: before you can support a resolution that calls for a commission to study the issue of slavery reparations for black citizens, you must first believe that today’s black Americans experienced slavery firsthand. There is no way around it. No one can make an honest argument in favor...
Katharine Gorka from The Heritage Foundation was a recent guest of the John Locke Foundation, and she discussed her essay How Identity Politics Revives Slaveholders’ Argument For Group Rights published by The Federalist. In her essay, Gorka draws a line from identity politics today to the ideas brought back from Europe by rich slaveowners. She...
This summer’s racial protests and violence have propelled the issue of slavery reparations under the national spotlight. It is a central feature of the list of demands forwarded by the Movement for Black Lives — a coalition of “Black Lives Matter” and other related groups. For the first time since Reconstruction, there are currently bills in the...
John Carlisle believes bill introduced in the General Assembly seeking slavery disclosures would set the stage for the bilking of corporations.
