The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

Climate-related disasters are destroying precious records, warn campaigner Laura Trevelyan and Nicole Phillip of the University of the West Indies

A conservative Los Angeles-based influencer stated that legislative issues should be left up to individual states to be decided: including whether or not slavery is enacted.

California and Nevada voters will decide in November if they want to ban forced prison labor by removing language from their state constitutions rooted in the legacy of chattel slavery

Reparations is expected to be a key talking point in Samoa

Keir Starmer is going to Samoa to ‘discuss shared challenges and opportunities’, says spokesperson

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