Some of the world’s biggest brands are benefitting from the forced labour of Uyghurs in China, reports say. A bill before Parliament would target those companies and their products.
A 142-year-old passage in the state constitution allowed involuntary servitude for prisoners. It hasn’t been easy to get rid of
Canadian author Esi Edugyan: ‘We have to be on guard against darker things. To not discuss them is to open up the potential for a blind spot or forgetting.’
Cecelia Jane Reynolds corresponded with her former owner. Was it real friendship, or a desire to free her family?
‘I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved,’ says Colson Whitehead, author of ‘The Underground Railroad’
A recent Oprah’s Book Club pick gets top marks
James Hannaham’s new novel explores slavery through a satirical lens
Recent high-profile cases of domestic bondage are just the tip of a disturbing social trend
Will Britain, France and the Netherlands pay up?
Sir Roger Bannister raises a controversial thesis at the London Olympic Games
Don’t tell anybody, but I’m rather tickled that the Queen Charlotte Islands have been given back the name of the slaveholding empire that was once centred there. Such a cheeky gesture! So politically incorrect! So contrary to the stifling liberal spirit of our age! It is almost literally as if Mississippi got renamed Whitetopia; and yet the progressives are simply falling over themselves with naïve praise. I raise a glass to you and shoot you a sly wink, Government of British Columbia!
A report published Wednesday alleges the widespread enslavement of non-Arab men, women, and children in Sudan’s Darfur region by the Sudanese army and its Janjaweed militia allies. The report by the Darfur Consortium also documents the spreading nature of the violence, as ethnically cleansed non-Arab villages Darfur are populated by Arab nomads from Chad, Niger, Mali, and Cameroon. I reported on this trend two years ago while on assignment in eastern Chad, a no-man’s land bordering Darfur.