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Letters: Prof Julia O’Connell Davidson likens the government’s plans to deport asylum seekers to the forced returns facilitated by the Fugitive Slave Act in the US. Plus a letter from Mark Stephens

Thousands of enslaved people in Texas were ordered free two years after Emancipation Proclamation

The new Juneteenth federal holiday celebrates the emancipation of enslaved people in our nation. That did not, however, emancipate Black people from the economic impact of their enslavement. Emancipation was followed by a failed Reconstruction, a century of Jim Crow, separate-but-(not)-equal, institutional racism and discrimination — the consequences of which…

After cancellation of Africa flight, home secretary tries to stem slavery claims from refugees hoping to stay in UK

The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were speeches, sermons and shared meals, mostly held at Black churches, the safest places to have such celebrations.

Thousands of enslaved people in Texas were ordered free two years after Emancipation Proclamation

Some beliefs are not based on facts, and some people hold beliefs in spite of the facts.

Thousands of enslaved people in Texas were ordered free two years after Emancipation Proclamation

Recently uncovered court documents from 1828 related to noted abolitionist Sojourner Truth will be on display after almost two centuries

Iraqi Yazidi women survivors of ISIL sexual slavery still have no knowledge of what happened to their missing family.

As Juneteenth celebrations and paraphernalia begin to litter our social timelines, we must remember that slavery has yet to be truly abolished. To this day, in prisons and jails across the country, government agencies and corporations legally exploit forced prison labor thanks to an exception baked into the 13th Amendment…