The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

Snapchat, 'slavery' and how gang bosses are lining their pockets off the misery of children

Many of the children affected hundreds of miles away - in care or recent care leavers, and many are still not old enough to have completed high school

Manchester Evening News · Apr 20, 2023

Snapchat, 'slavery' and how Merseyside gang bosses are lining their pockets off the misery of children

"Both of you had been manipulated by those above you into thinking this was the life for you"

Liverpool Echo · Apr 20, 2023

Ex anti-slavery commissioner: Deeply regrettable that role vacant a year on

Dame Sara Thornton said there could potentially be a conflict of interest with the Home Office being in charge of appointing someone to the post.

The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2023

Slavery and the monarchy: time for a royal reckoning?

The list of British institutions reconsidering their uncomfortable relationship with slavery has just acquired an illustrious new member, said The Times.

The Week · Apr 14, 2023

Saving anti-slavery poem won’t cost Charles a king’s ransom

Brief letters: Monarchy’s slave trade links | Lancashire cotton workers | Eating squirrel | Ginger Rogers’ films

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2023

Ten arrested for drugs and modern slavery offences after dawn raids

Tens of thousands of pounds of drugs have also been seized following the raids

Manchester Evening News · Apr 13, 2023

A Navy ship named for a Confederate victory now honors a Black Union hero

The Navy has renamed the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory, to the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate steamship.

WEKU · Apr 12, 2023

Research gaps in Australian sex trafficking prevalence

Anti-slavery advocates warn more research and education is needed to prevent sex trafficking and protect vulnerable people at risk of exploitation.

AAP · Apr 12, 2023

Second Amendment Roundup: To Preserve Liberty, Not Slavery

Carl Bogus invented the fiction that the purpose of the Second Amendment was slave control.

Reason · Apr 12, 2023

Britain’s monarchy backed slavery from day one

Letters: Jordan Andrews on Charles II’s backing for the Royal African Company. Plus, Robert Godsill on Oliver Cromwell’s leading role in slavery

The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2023