This article is one of many thousands (millions?) of examples of stories that begin with poor people, desperate for basic resources, taking offers of work
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Tag: Slavery
Camel Racing and Child Slavery
This is an excellent book about an extremely difficult topic. The main character is a young orphan boy who is sold into slavery by his
Continue readingRace, Class and Educational Amnesia
The following quotes are much longer than those I generally post. However, they illustrate one of the most powerful responses I had to this book,
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“Bruce gave me his short talk on the history of the maple syrup industry in the United States. It peaked around the time of the
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