Slavery is an abhorrent concept, but for most of human history, it was accepted as normal. The widespread collapse of “the ...

Research by the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab has identified that slavery and human trafficking are present in 90 per cent of modern wars. Modern slavery experts Professor Kevin Bales, ...

Activist Kevin Bales is continuing his long fight against human trafficking and contemporary slavery. Bales talks about his new book, Ending Slavery, which presents a plan to rid the world of human ...

In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who ...

Murphy, assistant professor of English at Loyola Univ. New Orleans, has compiled an anthology of narratives told or written by survivors of modern-day slavery. The experiences of women forced into sex ...

July 4 is an appropriate time to remember Frederick Douglass' famous 1852 speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" The speech is - for good reason - most famous for its powerful condemnation ...

New slavery -- Slavery throughout history -- Types of slavery -- Slavery around the world -- Slavery and globalization -- Controversies and problems -- How we will end slavery -- Timeline -- Notes -- ...

Chance Bonar works at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, and is affiliated with their ongoing Slavery, Colonialism, and Their Legacies at Tufts University project. The effects of ...

March 19 (Reuters) - Britain marks 200 years on March 25 since its first law abolishing trade in African slaves received royal assent, in a major step towards ending a trade that shipped more than 10 ...

In the United States, we like to discuss the distortions of the nation’s history as amnesia, when it is more appropriate to understand our affliction as selective memory clotted with omissions ...