The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

Peers say protections have been undermined by three immigration acts passed by the previous government

California and Nevada voters to vote on banning forced prison labor tied to slavery. Advocates seek fair treatment for incarcerated individuals.

There’s one question I get every time I give a talk. I’m a curator of political history at the Smithsonian Institution, and when I discuss the deep history of political division in our country, someone in the audience always asserts that we can’t possibly compare past divisions to the present,…

Trio were found guilty of modern slavery offences and money laundering

Michael Thurmond’s book about the ‘father of Georgia’ followed a surprise discovery that the former enslaver was an abolitionist

It is little explored that the father of the great architect’s patron, Eusebi Güell, made much of his fortune from slavery in Cuba

If voted into law, Proposition 6 would abolish forced labor as a criminal punishment in the state’s prisons

Ringleaders Ernest Drevenak and Veronika Bubencikova lavished profits on gold jewellery and luxury cars

London property once home to Malcolm X gets blue plaque, and Bristol exhibition explores 1833 slavery abolition