It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

Many Native American tribes practiced forms of slavery long before European contact. Enslavement was often based on warfare ...

This National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, my Administration renews our commitment to end the evil of human trafficking, restore law ...

Slavery ends not when words are purified or systems improved, but when relations are introduced that power cannot absorb – ...

Many believe slavery never existed in Canada - but the truth is far more complicated. This video uncovers how slavery was ...

More than 2,000 first-person accounts of slavery in America have been digitized and compiled for a collection that is now available online on the Library of Congress website. “Born in Slavery: Slave ...

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

Racism has existed across civilizations and throughout time, but in the United States it has specific ties to the institution of slavery. For hundreds of years, Black Africans and Americans were held ...

The gap between the economies of former colonies and their colonisers owes much to the policies of post-colonial governments ...

Activists say there's more to be done about "exploitation" in prisons. Slavery was on some ballots this Election Day, and voters in several states on Tuesday were in favor of officially removing ...

On Jan. 1, 1863, the president of the United States issued one of the most important executive orders in American history: Proclamation 95, more commonly known as the Emancipation Proclamation. Though ...

"Punishing incarcerated people for refusing to work indeed violates the state constitution’s ban on involuntary servitude and ...