Slavery Abolition

The call for reparations is being sounded beyond the U.S., with activists and political leaders demanding accountability for slavery and colonization of their countries. In Jamaica, which became a British colony in the 1650s, the government has begun a push for reparations, seeking redress for nearly two centuries of slavery…

The Mad King was an anti-slavery trailblazer: How George III branded European traffickers 'repugnant' and denounced trade in text he wrote as a boy... five decades before he signed AbolitionGeorge III argued against slavery in the precis of a 1748 political treatise He says slavery is 'equaly (sic) repugnant to the…

The idea that America is a white country goes back to the days long before the Revolutionary War, when men like Thomas Jefferson, a founding father of the idea, struggled nervously with what to do about all the Black and brown people in their midst. Read Full Article » Read…

Amid contentious national pushback over how much of the full history of slavery in the United States should be taught in schools, the holiday season represents a particularly overlooked period. Around the time Christmas was starting to become a national holiday in the late-19th century, propagandists of the Lost Cause—the…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “Four score and 7 years ago…” Those historical words have been reprinted and shared for over 150 years. But by President Abraham Lincoln's own admission, the Gettysburg Address dismisses the use of words. I’m not joking. Here’s an excerpt: “The world will little…

Rep. David Scott wants to know how farms in Georgia were able to run what the feds call a "modern-day slavery operation" for years. File photo by Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images A Democratic congressman is seriously concerned that migrant agricultural laborers are being made to work against…

The Home Office has been accused of “misleading the public” after refusing to publish evidence to support its claim that allowing asylum seekers to work would create a “pull factor” for people to come to Britain. High profile figures including the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner and the chair of the Migration…

NEW YORK (AP) — Following a year of professional milestones born of her work on America’s history of slavery, Pulitzer Prize-winning Black journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones said she is clear-eyed about her mission to force a reckoning around the nation’s self-image. The New York Times Magazine writer began this year in…

The first case of the Omicron variant has been detected in China. ​​The discovery comes just weeks ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics. A building dubbed China’s “Little Red Mansion” is shocking Chinese society after a brutal sex slavery case was exposed within its walls. The details are shedding light…

Wednesday 08 December 2021 6:15 am Britain’s millions of small and medium sized businesses may assume that modern slavery has nothing to do with them, as they’re not major firms with a global footprint. Little do they know that a Cornwall café owner could be using coffee produced by child…