Slavery in the United States July 30, 2008, the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution apologizing for American slavery and subsequent discriminatory laws. The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a similar resolution on June 18, 2009, apologizing for the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery". It also explicitly states that it cannot be used for restitution claims. A 2016 study, published in The Journal of Politics, finds that "Whites who currently live in Southern counties that had high shares of slaves in 1860 are more likely to identify as a Republican, oppose affirmative action, and express racial resentment and colder feelings toward
21 Lessons for the 21st Century at identifying the crises to come but his syrupy platitudes are no answer." 21 Lessons for the 21st Century 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a book written by bestseller Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari and published in August 2018 by Spiegel & Grau in the US and by Jonathan Cape in the UK. Having dealt with the distant past in (2011) and with the distant future in (2016), Harari turns in "21 Lessons" his attention to the present. In a loose collection of essays, many based on articles previously published, he attempts to untangle the technological, political, social,