Wearing dark blue medical masks, Wendy and her younger sister stepped in front of the audience at a book launch. The two, ...

When she resisted, the supervisor threatened Alice with a stun gun and “said that if she did not comply, he would lock her up ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been found guilty of violating the Mann Act. But the split verdict has stirred confusion about sex ...

Everyone has a role to play in combatting human trafficking, and it all starts with education: Know the issue, what it really ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

Ilja Abbattista is now a board member for the Bright Future Co-operative, which is supporting modern slavery survivors into safe employment.

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American slavery.

It is aform of modern day slavery and it is all around us. Force, fraud, or coercion used to control another human being. It is something not freuqently talk ...

There’s a quote attributed to Saint Augustine that Hope has two beautiful daughters. One, so it goes, is named Anger – and represents an outrage at the way things are. The other, Courage ...

How the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Continues to Impact Modern Life A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism ...

The book includes discussions of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the many fallacies that politicians have communicated in order to maintain their power and their platforms.