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Scholars: Slavery's Legacy Present in Current Policies, Social Customs
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WAUHAM, Mass.
Several hundred people spent a day and a half recently at Brandeis University discussing a subject that most people generally avoid: slavery.
The conference focused on overcoming the "religious and sexual legacy" of the Atlantic slave trade and systems of bondage embedded in the original teachings of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Professors who presented papers at the invocation of the Brandeis Feminist Sexual Ethics Project described as contemporary legacies of slavery public policies on welfare and criminal justice as well as social customs that shape marriage, Black women's sexuality and even Black leadership.
A major theme was that two …
