The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

What Is Opus Dei and Why Are 43 Argentinian Women Suing The Secretive Catholic Group

Opus Dei, an ultra religious Catholic institution, is being accused of using false promises of a better life to coerce 43 children into slavery and seclusion.

International Business Times UK · Apr 15, 2025

Trafficking victims rejecting UK government support because they fear being deported

Nearly 6,000 victims of modern slavery chose not to be referred for help last year, new data shows

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2025

Israelis mark another Passover hoping for Gaza captives to be freed

Relatives of hostages in Gaza say they feel the absence of their loved ones acutely during Passover, which commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and their liberation from slavery

The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2025

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 · Apr 7, 2025

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 · Apr 4, 2025

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 · Apr 2, 2025

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 · Apr 2, 2025

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 · Apr 1, 2025

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 · Apr 1, 2025

‘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 · Apr 1, 2025