Slavery - Quillette

Preparations, Not Reparations

If good educational opportunities were there for the taking, the sense of racial injustice in America would be much less.

Eric Silver / John Iceland

19 Nov 2023 · 7 min read

Are We Teaching That Slavery Is Beneficial?

That slaves were able to develop beneficial skills while in bondage is a tribute to the human ability to wrest value and create meaning even under conditions of almost unfathomable duress.

James B. LaGrand

8 Aug 2023 · 4 min read

The Father of Capitalism and the Abolition of Slavery

So in the end, slavery, the slave trade and imperialism were not only morally disgusting but also of dubious economic value.

Matthew Lesh

22 Jun 2020 · 8 min read

PODCAST 83: Professor Wilfred Reilly on his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About

Kentucky State political science professor Wilfred Reilly talks to Toby Young about his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About. Professor Reilly’s last piece for Quillette was about the 1776 project.

Quillette / Wilfred Reilly / Toby Young

27 Mar 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 79: Coleman Hughes on the "1776" Project

Quillette columnist Coleman Hughes on why he and some other prominent black intellectuals have created the “1776” project, a response to the New York Times‘s 1619 Project. Quillette recently published an article on the “1776” project by Wilfred Reilly, another of the people involved.

Quillette / Coleman Hughes

29 Feb 2020 · 1 min read

No, Jonathan Haidt is Not Like a Slavery Apologist

The unhinged reasoning in Fairbanks’s essay invites an overcorrection. It would be easy—and tendentious—to reverse her argument. The Left are the real heirs of the proslavery tradition—intolerant aggression disguised as aggrieved fragility, etc.

Adam Rowe

4 Sep 2019 · 6 min read