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Bogeyman review – Haiti and the price of revolution

The first country to abolish slavery has been demonised and minimised, as Emily Aboud’s alternately fascinating and frustrating play reveals

The Guardian - UK

Special unit set up to beat modern slavery and human trafficking

Team will support victims of serious and organised crime

Manchester Evening News

Friday essay: a slave state - how blackbirding in colonial Australia created a legacy of racism

In July 2021, Jack Dempsey, the mayor of Bundaberg, delivered an official apology for Northern Queensland’s past reliance on the indentured labour of Pacific Islanders, many of whom were kidnapped (or “blackbirded”) and forced to work on the state’s cane plantations. “To say sorry,” explained Dempsey, “is a start in…

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Fighting the modern slavery that is hiding in plain sight is more important that pulling down old statues

Owner of car wash taken to court over pay and conditions of migrant workers

Daily Mirror

Trevor Noah on drone strike: ‘America never forgets … unless it’s slavery’

Late-night hosts discuss the killing of al-Qaida’s Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan and Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan

The Guardian - US

James Hutton Brew: Gold Coast abolitionist who exposed Britain's anti-slavery hypocrisy

The literature and research on the abolition of slavery in places like Gold Coast (modern day Ghana) has tended to have a Eurocentric focus. Most has focused on colonial anti-slavery legislation and the abolitionist activities of Europeans. The contributions made by local Africans have been almost entirely ignored. When mentioned…

The Conversation

Frederick Douglass gets the Hamilton treatment with new musical

American Prophet, focusing on the abolitionist, orator and polymath, is the latest marker of a Douglass renaissance in popular culture

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People are renting out actual slave cabins on Airbnb

A TikTok revealed a a disturbing trend of turning plantation slave quarters into “cute” hotel rooms.

Mic

The Scottish Parliament Could Make A National Apology For Slavery

The Scottish Parliament could make a national apology for slavery according to Scottish National Party proposals.

Zenger

Athletic feats at Commonwealth Games cannot distract from Britain’s colonial sins

The lasting damage that slavery and colonialism have inflicted on Commonwealth countries has never been fully addressed

The Guardian - UK

Man accused of helping politician to ‘bring man to UK to harvest his kidney’

Obinna Obeta, 50, from Southwark, south London, is charged under the Modern Slavery Act.

The Independent UK

NSW Gov Really Wants Kids Under 18 To Work Off COVID Fines It’s Giving Child Slavery

What the fuck is going on here on this day.

Pedestrian.tv

Mo Farah was trafficked to the UK – the government's new immigration law could make it harder for modern slavery victims to receive help

Sir Mo Farah has bravely revealed that he was trafficked to the UK as a child, taken to a new country by a woman he didn’t know and forced to work as a domestic servant.

The Conversation

Revealed: ‘Hidden epidemic’ of abusive cults in UK, with 2,000 groups operating freely

Thousands have suffered sexual abuse, isolation from friends and family and modern slavery at the hands of UK cults

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Wales Online

My neighbour groomed me and I was driven to dirty houses full of men where I was raped 1,500 times

'Be alert to what's going on and don't think that it can't happen in Wales. Anybody could be a victim and every child is vulnerable'

Daily Mirror

'Sir Mo Farah is right about modern slavery - and women are still suffering today'

Columnist Saira Khan writes on the so-called arranged marriages that are destroying women's lives as they are trapped in a life of modern-day slavery, too scared to escape or speak out

The Conversation

Whiteness is an invented concept that has been used as a tool of oppression

Whiteness is a modern, colonial invention. It was devised in the 17th century and used to provide the logic for genocide and slavery. The first recorded mention of “white people”, historians concur, is in English playwright Thomas Middleton’s 1613 play, The Triumphs of Truth.

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Sir Mo Farah 'relieved' as immigration officials say he won't be investigated after coming out as human trafficking victim

London police look into Olympic star Mo Farah's revelation that he was illegally brought to the UK and forced into domestic slavery as a child.

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The Independent UK

Advocates: Farah's story can help other trafficking victims

Until this week, Mo Farah was a four-time Olympic champion winding down his hugely successful career as a long-distance runner

The Guardian - US

‘It’s inhumane’: how US prison work breaks bodies and minds for pennies

Two out of three prisoners are forced to work, in what is often referred to as modern day slavery

Wales Online

Child slavery reports in the UK reach record levels as Sir Mo Farah speaks about his own trafficking experience.

Olympic gold medallist reveals he had been brought to the UK from Djibouti at the age of nine and forced to serve another family’s children

Daily Mirror

Real Mo Farah: What is modern slavery and the signs of human trafficking?

British Olympic athlete Mo Farah has revealed that he became a victim of human trafficking and modern slavery at just nine years-old - here’s what modern slavery is

Daily Mirror

Sir Alex Ferguson's Cristiano Ronaldo promise and "slavery" claim over Man Utd exit

Cristiano Ronaldo could be set to leave Manchester United for a second time, 12 years after a tense few months involving manager Alex Ferguson set up a Real Madrid move

The Independent UK

Clotilda descendants mark anniversary of last slave ship

Descendants of the last African people abducted into slavery and brought to America's shores gathered to pay tribute to their ancestors

Liverpool Echo

The 'statement' building that could become the new gateway to the Albert Dock

The Dr Martin Luther King Jr Building will feature in a major redevelopment led by National Museums Liverpool

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