The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

UK will not apologise for role in slavery at Commonwealth summit, No 10 says

News that no symbolic apology or reparations are planned could put Starmer on collision course with other nations

The Guardian - UK · Oct 19, 2024

The history of Caribbean slavery is being lost. Britain must act now to preserve it

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

The Guardian - UK · Oct 19, 2024

Conservative Influencer Says Slavery Should Be Reinstated 'If Everyone In the State Wants It': 'What Do I Give a S--t'

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.

Latin Times · Oct 18, 2024

Voters in California and Nevada consider ban on forced labor aimed at protecting prisoners

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

The Independent UK · Oct 15, 2024

Commonwealth slavery reparations debate: What could the UK be asked to pay?

Reparations is expected to be a key talking point in Samoa

The Independent UK · Oct 14, 2024

Slavery reparations not on agenda at Commonwealth summit, says No 10

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

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2024

How a newspaper revolution sparked protesters and influencers, disinformation and the Civil War

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,…

The Conversation · Oct 7, 2024

Human traffickers jailed for 'horrific exploitation' of vulnerable migrants in north London

Trio were found guilty of modern slavery offences and money laundering

Evening Standard · Oct 7, 2024

The road to a slave-free Georgia: the little-known history of state founder James Oglethorpe

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

The Guardian - US · Oct 6, 2024

Is Gaudí’s slave trade-funded park a blot on Barcelona’s landscape?

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

The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2024