The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

If history textbooks were more like this Instagram account, maybe more kids would open them. Or at least try to.

The rise is thought to be partly down to an increase in exploitation of migrant women in the care sector, Unseen said.

In her groundbreaking book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, 1812-1897, Cheryl Thompson, professor of performance at Toronto Metropolitan University, maps the transnational flow of minstrel culture and racial ideologies, revealing how blackface performance — and the racism it reflects — was not strictly an American…

Australian workers in "modern slavery" conditions are being exploited by their employers, left in debt and often assaulted, an inquiry has been told.