In 1999, after spending 17 years on death row for a crime he did not commit and within hours of execution, activists and attorneys won a stay of execution giving time for investigators to find the people who did the crime.
Month: August 2021
Slavery and the origins of racism
The classical empires of Greece and Rome were based on slave labor. But ancient slavery was not viewed in racial terms. Slaves were most often captives in wars or conquered peoples. If we understand white people as originating in what is today Europe, then most slaves in ancient Greece and Rome were white.
