The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

Samrat Choudhury's book maps Northeast India's long journey from isolation to integration, highlighting unresolved issues like autonomy and independent states. Colonial records provide insight into the region's history, while Christianity's quick pick-up and slavery's prevalence are discussed. The author explains why some creative problem-solving is required to sort out festering…

Leaders of Georgia's oldest city have made history by voting to name one of Savannah's treasured downtown squares for a Black woman who taught formerly enslaved people to read and write

Guyana president Irfaan Ali has lashed out at the descendants of European slave traders and says those who profited from the cruel, trans-Atlantic slave trade should offer to pay reparations to today’s generations

In a speech to mark Unesco’s campaign for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, UN secretary-general António Guterres told the United Nations general assembly earlier this year that the inequalities created by 400 years of the transatlantic chattel trade persist to this day. “We can draw a…

The introduction of due diligence legislation is a crucial next step to tackle worker exploitation and modern slavery in supply chains, writes Christina Stringer

Exclusive: Patrick Robinson says reparation for transatlantic slavery ‘is required by history and is required by law’

A new report meticulously analyses the true cost of the transatlantic slave trade, showing how past and present are bound together

The former prime minister’s father, John Gladstone, was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies

The former prime minister’s father, John Gladstone, was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies.

The Demerara Rebellion failed, but it was a step towards ending slavery in the British empire

The great Victorian statesman’s glittering career was financed by huge profits made in the 1820s and 30s on Guyanese estates