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

River Thames pier renamed by Uber after campaign over slavery link

Uber Boats have announced it has been renamed St Mary’s Wandsworth

The Independent UK

US blocks sea salt imports from South Korean salt farm over forced labor concerns

The United States has blocked imports of sea salt products from a major South Korean salt farm accused of using slave labor, becoming the first trade partner to take punitive action against a decadeslong problem on salt farms in remote islands off South Korea’s southwest coast

The Independent UK

Abolition wasn’t fueled by just moral or economic concerns – the booming whaling industry also helped sink slavery

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or economic changes. But what if both perspectives are looking at only part of the puzzle?

The Conversation

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

Maryland lawmakers plan to study reparations for slavery

Maryland lawmakers have approved a measure to create a commission to study and recommend potential benefits as reparations for slavery and lingering impacts of racial discrimination in the state

The Independent UK

Secrets of Success: the church that served a plantation remains a monument of resistance

Amid the site in rural Jamaica that once belonged to a Guardian financier may lie a treasure trove of artefacts that tell the story of Britain’s history of colonisation and enslavement

The Guardian - UK

Trump will not stop until every American relic reflects his imaginary world view

The US president’s attack on the Smithsonian isn’t about truth. It’s about erasure, and ‘erasure is violence’

The Guardian - US

Land reparations are possible − and over 225 US communities are already working to make amends for slavery and colonization

Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed the idea of redistributing land to redress the nation’s legacies of slavery.

The Conversation

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

‘We feel the pain but there is also joy’: the healing power of diasporic connection

The Legacies of Enslavement programme aims to atone for the Guardian’s past while highlighting the lasting impact of transatlantic slavery

The Guardian - UK

Drax of Drax Hall by Paul Lashmar review – forensic exposé of a British dynasty built on slavery

This timely and important book reveals Barbados plantation owner James Drax to be the equal of Robert Clive or Cecil Rhodes in his profiteering from human misery

The Guardian - UK

Toxic nostalgia: MAGA's Russia syndrome

Russia's Kremlin loyalists and America's MAGA faithful have a lot in common — and they're both enslaved by the past

Salon

Men urged to ‘stop using prostitutes’ as MPs debate modern slavery

A ‘significant’ number of women were brought to the UK under false pretences before being forced to work in the sex industry, a Labour MP said.

Evening Standard

Most Britons do not know scale of UK’s involvement in slavery, survey finds

Vast majority unaware how many people were enslaved and for how long, although poll finds support for reparations is rising

The Guardian - UK

Labour accused of turning ‘blind eye to slavery’ over solar panels made in China

MPs likely to be whipped against move to add protections, as government says it is already taking action on risk of forced labour

The Guardian - UK

Ten years after the Modern Slavery Act, why has this ‘world-leading’ legislation had so little impact?

The UK’s 2015 Modern Slavery Act is ten years old on March 26. When it was passed, it was billed as “world-leading” legislation – the first of its kind to introduce a dedicated legal framework to deal with modern slavery.

The Conversation

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation

Three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance

Millions of people were abducted from west Africa and forcibly trafficked to the Americas over the 400 years of the transatlantic slave trade, from the 15th to the 19th century.

The National (Scotland)

Labour set to bin anti-slavery policy in GB Energy Bill

MEASURES that would have banned companies which use forced labour from getting backing from GB Energy could be overturned by Labour this week.

The Guardian - UK

MPs could axe clause in bill banning forced labour in GB Energy supply chain

Measures blocking companies involved in modern slavery from receiving public money could be overturned

Evening Standard

Cambridge University in row over claims Stephen Hawking benefited from slavery-linked funds

Cambridge is in a dispute with academics after an exhibition linked Stephan Hawking with the slave trade

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Flawed UK visa scheme led to ‘horrific’ care worker abuse, says watchdog

Anti-slavery commissioner says scheme to plug staffing gaps post-Brexit was a ‘blunt instrument’ that enabled exploitation of the vulnerable

The Guardian - UK

Exploited, recognised as a slavery victim, now facing deportation: one seafarer’s UK ordeal

After years of helping Scottish criminal investigations and despite fearing for his life in India, Vishal Sharma’s asylum claim has been rejected

The Guardian - UK

Artist traces Manchester’s links to slavery on blue cotton gown

Manchester Art Gallery exhibition features gown inspired by outfit worn by abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond

Reason

Review: D.C. Museum Exhibit Illuminates the Brutalities of Slavery

The "In Slavery's Wake" exhibit celebrates black Americans' resistance to slavery and Jim Crow.

Evening Standard

Footage shows UN judge claiming ‘immunity’ to police before slavery conviction

Lydia Mugambe was found guilty of all four charges at Oxford Crown Court on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Trump's move to restore old Army base names highlights Nebraska man's heroics at 18 in World War I

Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery for more than a century

Evening Standard

Slavery victim was forced to sleep beside dogs and beaten to death, court told

The body of 55-year-old Dimitrios Tsavdaris was found in a foetal position in a flat in Hackney, north London.

1 … 15 16 17 18

People

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

Organisations

University of Cambridge

223 stories

the University of Cambridge

the National Science Foundation

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.