The United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Act, enacted on March 26 2015, has turned ten years old. The legislation, which nominally introduced and strengthened protections for people who survived situations ...

Countries with a high prevalence of modern slavery share common challenges, including restricted civil liberties, authoritarian rule, and poor labor protections. In some cases, slavery is sponsored by ...

“Our family, Black and white.” For the slaveholding class of the old South, it was a familiar trope, one intended to convey both mastery and benevolence, to hide the reality of raw power and ...

The United States government's support of slavery was based on an overpowering practicality. In 1790, a thousand tons of cotton were being produced every year in the South. By 1860, it was a million ...

The question of slavery’s future figured prominently when the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Some delegates from Northern states hoped to banish the practice.

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today. Along with essays and books on everything from the ...

Government’s anti-slavery commissioner says traffickers are exploiting a growing pipeline of vulnerability Slavery in the UK is at record levels and is expected to worsen over the next decade, the ...

The 1776 Report’s call for “restoring patriotic education” (Report, p. 16) is a positive initiative to reverse the growing divide in America. Unfortunately, calling it an “illusion that slavery was ...

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In the 1980s, at a school in Maryland, a teacher introduced an eager group of students to the rigors of history by stating that slavery was not that big of a deal. Most people, this person said, only ...

IN 1881 SOMEONE donated an antique brass circlet to the Rijksmuseum, the Dutch national museum of art and history. The object (pictured) is a bit of a stumper. Engraved with a heraldic shield and the ...