Trail of Tears

A Brief History of U.S. Concentration Camps

July 4, 2019 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Immigration, Indigenous peoples, Native American Genocide, Prisoners, Racism

by Brett Wilkins, published on Black Agenda Report, June 26, 2019 concentration camp (noun): a place in which large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. – Oxford English Dictionary Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has ignited a[…]