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Reports of modern slavery in UK hit record highs

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The Independent UK

New record high for modern slavery referrals as they rise by a third in a year

More than 6,400 potential victims were referred to the Home Office in the three months to September, up by more than a third in a year.

Evening Standard

What if the path to ending fossil fuels looked like the fight to end slavery?

When Britain abolished slavery in its empire in 1833, it paid the equivalent of hundreds of billions today in compensation – not to the enslaved, but to the slave owners. It was an imperfect, morally uneasy compromise, but it helped achieve a historic transition that had seemed impossible.

The Conversation

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'A lot of people think slavery is something in our history books, and they don't necessarily think about how much it can touch our lives now' - the cycling jersey fighting slavery

Sales of a limited-edition jersey are raising money to teach children about modern-day slavery in the UK today

Cycling Weekly

Woman escapes slavery barefoot and tastes freedom for the first time. Then she does the unthinkable and goes back into hell 19 times

Two days bleeding on a loom, no doctor... and they wonder why she ran.

We Got This Covered

Alamo Trust president resigns after Dan Patrick calls for her removal

The lieutenant governor has insisted that the Alamo’s story remain focused on the 1836 battle over broader narratives addressing Indigenous people and slavery.

The Texas Tribune

Asylum seekers removed to France include potential victims of modern slavery, says report

Humans for Rights Network also says some returned under ‘one in, one out’ scheme had family in the UK

The Guardian - UK

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Black History Month now year-round event at Fulham Palace as it addresses its past

Museum wants to confront history of ‘bishops of the colonies’ and their involvement in slavery

The Guardian - UK

Pharaohs in Dixieland – how 19th-century America reimagined Egypt to justify racism and slavery

When Napoleon embarked upon a military expedition into Egypt in 1798, he brought with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental “Description de l’Égypte,” a massive, multivolume work about Egyptian geography, history and culture.

The Conversation

Spare us from romcom Austen. Give me the dark side of 19th-century life any day

Why sanitise or sugarcoat the classics? New adaptations of Austen and Brontë could explore everything from slavery to death in childbirth, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

Trump touts slavery icon as Vance whitewashes racist texts. These guys aren’t saying quiet part out loud — they’re shouting

NEWS ANALYSIS: No one asked the president about Robert E. Lee, it just rolled off his tongue, and his No. 2 used whataboutism to take a pass on denouncing blatantly racist statements. It’s not a good look for the Republican Party, writes John Bowden

The Independent UK

New York Governor says offensive Young Republicans group chat shows the ‘future of the party’

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has reacted to a Young Republican group chat, where members joked about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

The Independent UK

Reparations leaders ‘deeply disappointed’ as Newsom vetoes university bill

Backlash as California governor rejects measure allowing preferential treatment for descendants of enslaved people

The Guardian - US

Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Reassessing the Haitian revolutionary leader’s legacy

Every Oct. 17, Haiti celebrates Dessalines Day, commemorating the assassination in 1806 of the country’s first head of state postindependence, Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

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Why it is so hard to estimate the number of victims of modern slavery in the UK

How many people in the UK are victims of modern slavery? At present, we don’t actually know. There is no consensus on the answer to this question, despite the wide interest in finding it, and the tools and data to do so.

Evening Standard

Theresa May calls on businesses to investigate supply chains for modern slavery

The former PM said that modern slavery is ‘the greatest human rights issue of our time’.

Metal Hammer

"I split my forehead open. He said, 'Can you squeeze it and make it bleed some more? It looks great on the telly.'" Crazed fans, blood, burnout and mummies: the story of Iron Maiden's epic World Slavery tour

40 years after Live After Death set a new standard for heavy metal live albums, this is the story of the epic (and chaotic) tour behind it

Evening Standard

Lenny Henry faces backlash after calling for slavery reparations for black Britons

In his new book The Big Payback, the comedian and actor argues that racism in modern Britain can be traced directly to the slave trade and calls for radical solutions to address its legacy

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Radio France Internationale

French woman faces genocide trial over enslavement of Yazidi girl

A French woman accused of holding a Yazidi teenager in slavery in Syria in 2015 will stand trial in Paris on charges of genocide.

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: How to fight the right on reparations – and ‘rewire’ the architecture of inequality

In this weeks newsletter: Many paint reparations as impossible, unprecedented, even absurd – world experts tell a different story

The Independent UK

At America's national parks in the Trump era, the arc of history bends toward revisionism

The National Park Service under President Donald Trump is looking to reshape what it tells Americans about their history

The Guardian - UK

‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada will be made into searchable archive

Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors

The Guardian - UK

Amity by Nathan Harris review – perceptive portrait of slavery’s aftermath

This follow-up to the Booker-listed The Sweetness of Water charts the perilous journeys of a brother and sister in the Reconstruction era, from the deep south to Mexico

The Guardian - US

A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court

Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake

The Independent UK

Tim Dillon says he was fired from Riyadh Comedy Festival over slavery jokes

Comedian claims he was paid $375,000 to appear at the festival

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