From Slavery to Poverty POETRY / Women Authors Lee Badgett traveled to a

Lee Badgett traveled to a land where it has been legal for same-sex couples to marry since 2001: the Netherlands

For many Americans spirituality and business seem to be polar opposites: one is concerned with lofty questions of ultimate significance

but in reality

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From Slavery to Poverty POETRY / Women Authors Lee Badgett traveled to aThe racially charged stereotype of "welfare queen"an allegedly promiscuous waster who uses her children as meal tickets funded by tax payersis a familiar icon in modern America, but as Gunja SenGupta reveals in From Slavery to Poverty, her historical roots run deep. For, SenGupta argues, the language and institutions of poor relief and reform have historically served as forums for inventing and negotiating identity. Mining a broad array of sources on