The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

As archbishop of Canterbury visits Jamaica, research reveals trader left money to church’s missionary arm

In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina and trained to spend his life picking cotton.

Walker Art Gallery replaces Tinted Venus with sculpture of black child to explore links to slavery and empire

It officially adopted the American Theory of Government: First Come Rights; Then Comes Government to Secure These Rights

This iconic 1865 portrait of Abraham Lincoln was actually a doctored image of slavery advocate John Calhoun

Woven throughout this compelling collection of sculptures from the Max Mara prizewinner is a ferrous thread of hooks and spikes that drags the cruel history of slavery to the surface

From banning buses to masks to talking about slavery, here are some of the whackiest and most terrifying state laws being pushed in recent years

Mauritanians head to the polls on Saturday with incumbent President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani expected to win a second consecutive term. But in a country deeply divided between the Arab-Berber community at the helm and a Black Mauritanian populace still suffering the effects of slavery, a controversial law making Arabic the…

The legislation seeks to address those "directly wronged and traumatized by the ills of slavery, Jim Crow, and structural and institutional racism"