I am an academic who studies the mindset of slaveholders to understand more fully their rationale for what they do, in hopes of finding better ways to eradicate modern-day enslavement.

“Modern day prison labor descends from the enslavement of Black people. After the Thirteenth Amendment abolished race-based slavery, the criminal legal system was used to replicate its oppressive ...

Modern day slavery I saw him, I listened to him, and I even shook his hand. It all seemed real enough. And yet as I sat in the auditorium trying to understand what this person was telling us, part of ...

Slavery exists here and around the world today, and it hides in plain sight. There is no part of the world untouched by modern slavery.

The memorial’s sculptor, Moses Ezekiel, chose to depict “faithful [B]lack servants” to combat the “lies” that had been told about slavery in the South in order to show the support of ...

Data and research on modern slavery began to appear only about two decades ago, and that work focused on the systemic causes of enslavement – not on individual perpetrators.

Approximately 1 out of every 150 people is a victim of human trafficking, an innocent child, a young girl, or a teen. An estimated 50 million lives languish in the darkest alleys of the world due t… ...

Human trafficking and modern-day slavery are defined by the United Nations as “Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force ...

Modern slavery and environmental destruction remain largely risk-free endeavors for offenders, who stand to make a lot of money from exploitative practices.

Dale Hbbard of Bradenton says the Manatee County commissioners are doing a disservice to history by pursuing plans to re-erect a Confederate monument.

People incarcerated in Alabama's prisons say they're the victims of 'a modern-day form of slavery.' Those imprisoned in other states can say the same.

Data and research on modern slavery began to appear only about two decades ago, and that work focused on the systemic causes of enslavement – not on individual perpetrators.