Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

Philadelphia sues over removal of slavery exhibit at Independence National Historical Park

The National Park Service has removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park

The Independent UK · Jan 23

British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals

Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23

Exploited worker's death sparks anti-slavery calls

The death of a migrant worker who was exploited and fearful of his visa sponsor has prompted calls for the creation of an anti-slavery hotline.

AAP · Jan 16

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Brutal, vibrant and creative: capturing the soul of Latin America in 100 photographs

The journalist and historian Paulo Antonio Paranaguá uses images from the turbulent continent to weave a history of the region, covering colonisation, slavery and dictatorship

The Guardian - UK · Jan 12

‘There’s this whole other story’: inside the fight to end slavery in the Americas

The Great Resistance, an expansive new book by author and historian Carrie Gibson, brings together often unheard narratives to tell the bigger picture of a difficult time

The Guardian - US · Jan 5

Worker exploitation can hide in plain sight. Here’s how to ensure an ethical summer holiday

If they haven’t already, many Australians will soon head off for summer holidays. But behind every smooth check-in, cocktail or airport gate smile is one of more than an estimated 270 million tourism workers – about 8.2% of the global workforce.

The Conversation · Dec 31, 2025

Emmerdale actor Joshua Richards wept over modern slavery plot

Richards, who has appeared in Hollywood films including Troy and King Arthur: Excalibur Rising, said the issue of modern slavery is ‘horrifying’.

Evening Standard · Dec 31, 2025

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

The Zorg by Siddharth Kara review – scarcely imaginable horrors at sea

A vivid and chilling account of the deadly voyage that triggered the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade

The Guardian - UK · Dec 30, 2025

This 1,300-Page Anticapitalist History Gets a Few Things Wrong

Sven Beckert's Capitalism: A Global History is...not a reliable history.

Reason · Dec 29, 2025

Cyber slavery in Myanmar, staged encounters in UP: What it took to uncover these stories this year

Young Indians with hopes and aspirations trapped in the dark underbelly of cyber slavery in Myanmar. Families in Uttar Pradesh living in fear of police ‘half-encounters’. And a year spent telling stories of people fighting to survive.

Newslaundry · Dec 29, 2025

Green Party Scandal: Councillor Asghar Arrested on Suspicion of Modern Slavery and Threats

Green Party councillor Sohail Asghar arrested for modern slavery and threats in Lancashire, leading to suspension

International Business Times UK · Dec 24, 2025

Freedom for Christmas: the extraordinary journey of an enslaved woman to Britain

A newly unveiled statue in North Shields is casting fresh light on the extraordinary life of Mary Ann Macham – a woman whose courage carried her from the brutality of slavery in the US state of Virginia to freedom on the banks of the River Tyne on Christmas Day, 1831.

The Conversation · Dec 23, 2025

UK asylum seekers not widely abusing modern slavery rules, report finds

Exclusive: Thinktank’s findings undermine successive home secretaries’ statements about misuse of system in England and Wales

The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2025

Did Charles Dickens see A Christmas Carol as an anti-slavery story?

A Christmas Carol is usually read as a Victorian morality tale about capitalism and compassion. Yet an autographed script written by Charles Dickens during the American Civil War raises the possibility he may also have understood the story as speaking to the cause of ending slavery in the US.

The Conversation · Dec 19, 2025

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation · Dec 9, 2025

The metaverse is ushering in a new era of behind-the-scenes exploitation

From ancient slavery to the factory floor, progress has often relied on the exploitation of human beings. We might like to believe those days are well behind us. But in the digital age, AI and the metaverse risk repeating that pattern with new forms of invisible labour and inequality.

International Business Times UK · Dec 8, 2025

Elon Musk Mocked After Saying Children Should Be 'Proud' That The 'Whites In The West' Ended Slavery

Elon Musk's X post praising 'the Whites in the West' for ending slavery drew ridicule and rebukes from historians and campaigners, but archival records show a more complex, painful history.

Radio France Internationale · Dec 5, 2025

Dutch royal visit brings €66m fund for Suriname slavery descendants

Suriname and the Netherlands have launched a €66 million fund to support social projects for descendants of enslaved and indigenous peoples – part of a wider effort to confront the lasting legacy of colonial slavery.

The Guardian - UK · Nov 24, 2025

UK rejects Nigerian request to deport former politican jailed for organ trafficking

Ike Ekweremadu serving prison sentence after being found guilty of conspiring to exploit a man for his kidney

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

International Business Times UK · Nov 23, 2025

Slavery Echoes: Noose Video Fuels Firefighter's $25 Million Racism Lawsuit

A Black firefighter is suing the FDNY for $25 million after enduring a hostile environment, including a vile 'noose video'.

International Business Times UK · Nov 22, 2025

Black Firefighter Sues For £19m After Co-Worker's Rope Gesture 'Evokes Slavery'

Bloomfield firefighter Patrick Thomas has filed a federal civil rights suit seeking approximately £19 million ($25 million), alleging a colleague handed him a tied noose during training and that the department failed to act.

Metal Hammer · Nov 22, 2025

“I thought, ‘Enough. I don’t know that I need this kind of thing’”: In the early 90s, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor was at war with his label – so he did the most extreme thing he could

Between NIN’s Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral came Trent Reznor’s most extreme artistic statement

Reason · Nov 22, 2025

Second Amendment Roundup: In Wolford, Hawaii relies on the Black Codes

Improper analogue to support ban on arms on private property open to the public.

The Guardian - UK · Nov 20, 2025

UK construction workers at risk from modern slavery, charity warns

Helpline run by Unseen receives hundreds of calls a year from potential victims of exploitation

The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2025

Caribbean slavery reparations body decries claims it aims to ‘break UK Treasury’

On first official visit to UK, group calls for mutually beneficial programme to clean up ‘mess’ left by colonialism

The Conversation · Nov 18, 2025

Why it’s so hard to know what Jane Austen thought about slavery

Jane Austen’s Paper Trail is a podcast from The Conversation celebrating 250 years since the author’s birth. In each episode, we’ll be investigating a different aspect of Austen’s personality by interrogating one of her novels with leading researchers. Along the way, we’ll visit locations important to Austen to uncover a…

1 … 11 12 13 14

Coverage From

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

National Park Service

the Department of Home Affairs

55 stories

University of Tasmania

42 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.