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Black Nova Scotian Women Working in Service: The Invisible History

https://activehistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Bernard.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadOn Thursday February 7 Professor Wanda Thomas Bernard delivered this lunchtime lecture to the Lifelong Learners program at Acadia University. Bernard’s lecture builds on her work with Judith Fingard on Black Nova Scotian domestic workers in the mid-twentieth century. In this lecture Bernard discusses the hardships these women faced and the complex worlds in… Read more »

Modern slavery, environmental stress, and lingering international imperialism – unwinding the connections between intimately linked problems

There are critical connections between modern slavery, environment and imperialism.