Michael Coard has been making a pilgrimage to the President’s House on Independence Mall on May 21 for more than two decades.

From forced labor in fishing boats to state-sponsored slavery in North Korea, modern slavery persists across 167 countries in ...

With one year left in his term, the French president launched a new chapter in France's reckoning with its past by addressing ...

Australia is the latest country to prosecute its own citizens over Islamic State's system of Yazidi slavery, part of a ...

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 ...

As many as 5.3 million people were enslaved in Dutch colonies between 1595 and 1914, according to new research that puts the ...

Sweet Home Feliciana’ by UChicago’s Rashauna Johnson moves between family memoir and global events to examine how Black ...

Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Initiative released a public database Tuesday identifying 1,613 people who were enslaved by ...

India has the highest number of slaves in the world and it is in the forms of bonded labour, child trafficking and forced marriages. Many people, especially from lower castes, are trapped in bonded ...

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Washington (CNN)When slavery was outlawed in the US in 1865, the 13th Amendment included one exception. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party ...