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Tag: slavery

This or That

Ancestry.com romanticizes slavery to sell you a DNA kit

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 19, 2019, 7:17 AM Apr 19, 2019
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Slavery is good marketing for Ancestry.com, the outfit that sells DNA tests. It’s not a good look for the firm. Whitewashing never is.
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Politics

A political speech sends nation to history books

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 27, 2016, 9:56 AM Jul 27, 2016
7

Honk if you got up yesterday morning thinking it would be the day a national TV network would proudly feature an essay that included a reference to the comfortable life of being a slave in Washington. Read more →

Arts & Culture

The Economist reconsiders reconsideration of slavery

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 5, 2014, 8:47 AM Sep 5, 2014
4

In an editor’s note, The Economist acknowledged a slavery-sympathetic bood review shouldn’t have been posted. It also reposted the review ‘in the interest of transparency.’ Read more →

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