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Brazil just sued Tesla’s biggest competitor from China for worker conditions ‘analogous to slavery’

Some 31 people were forced to share a single bathroom in at least one worker dormitory.

Fortune

Harvard University agrees to transfer ownership of slavery photographs

The photographs of a father and daughter have sparked conversations about the legacy of slavery and who profits from it.

Al Jazeera

James Bradley’s thrilling, unsettling crime novel is set in a flooded Sydney in 2050

James Bradley is a brilliant writer of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. His recent book Deep Water (2024) is an elegiac essay in response to the wonders of the planet’s oceans. It celebrates undersea mysteries and the marvels of the surface, denounces the slavery and oppression connected with trade routes, and…

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Why a plantation house fire ignited a heated debate over slavery’s legacy

A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses where scores of enslaved Africans labored, has sparked joy and anger online

The Independent UK

Video of the Nottoway Plantation fire sparks jubilation. It's about anger and pain over slavery, too

A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, has sparked mass jubilation and consternation

The Independent UK

Layton Williams breaks down at discovering family connection to slavery

Actor and Strictly Come Dancing contestant Layton Williams was moved to tears during an episode of the genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? as he uncovered a personal connection to the history of slavery in his family.

The Independent UK

France expands slavery remembrance with memorial in Paris suburb

France on Saturday marks its National Memorial Day for Slavery and Its Abolitions. The town of Arcueil in the Paris suburbs is unveiling a commemorative stele – part of broader national efforts to create more memorial sites that acknowledge the country's role in slavery.

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Modern slavery victims opt to stay with exploiters for fear of deportation, research finds

Exclusive: Act found to be failing as hostile immigration policies deter trafficking victims from seeking help

The Guardian - UK

Friday essay: I work as a sensitivity reader – and racism is harder to spot than you’d think

If I asked you to picture a racist, I know exactly what you’d envision. A white hood, or someone screaming slurs, or a person praising slavery.

The Conversation

‘Blood timber’: western firms fuel conflict and ‘slavery’ in Colombia

Trade in uncertified hardwood illegally logged in Chocó rainforest and imported by US and Europe is financing paramilitaries, says Environmental Investigation Agency

The Guardian - UK

Love endures all, including slavery and the pandemic. I wanted to show how

In early 2020, separated from my family and friends during the pandemic, I made up my mind to write a love story

The Guardian - US

This Instagram Account Educates People By Explaining The Best History Memes Out There (23 Pics)

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

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More women than men in contacts to anti-slavery charity helpline for first time

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

The Independent UK

Black style and resistance: The Met Gala, dandyism and blackface in Canada

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…

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Labour hire companies exploiting slavery rule gaps

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

The Guardian - US

‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks over ‘slavery-like conditions’

Brazil has been the world’s leading coffee producer due to the forced labour of enslaved Africans and Afro-Brazilians

The Guardian - US

Trump cuts federal grants to plantation museum focused on reality of slavery

Whitney Plantation has two grants for Black history and culture terminated in ‘furtherance of president’s agenda’

The Guardian - US

Hurricane-hit Grenadians see climate change and reparations as one struggle

Island country deals with drought and hurricane damage as it pushes for reparations from countries that benefited from slavery

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Euronews

Caught on camera: French cinema finally reckons with its colonial past

For years, French cinema has ignored stories that dealt with France’s colonial history, but something is now changing.

The Conversation

200 years ago, France extorted Haiti in one of history’s greatest heists – and Haitians want reparations

In 2002, Haiti’s former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide argued that France should pay his country $US21 billion.

International Business Times UK

What Is Opus Dei and Why Are 43 Argentinian Women Suing The Secretive Catholic Group

Opus Dei, an ultra religious Catholic institution, is being accused of using false promises of a better life to coerce 43 children into slavery and seclusion.

The Guardian - UK

Trafficking victims rejecting UK government support because they fear being deported

Nearly 6,000 victims of modern slavery chose not to be referred for help last year, new data shows

The Independent UK

Israelis mark another Passover hoping for Gaza captives to be freed

Relatives of hostages in Gaza say they feel the absence of their loved ones acutely during Passover, which commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and their liberation from slavery

The Guardian - UK

Police freeze £1m as high street raids find cannabis farms and evidence of slavery

Thirty-five arrests after hundreds of barbershops and other businesses raided in UK money-laundering investigation

Evening Standard

Hundreds of barbershops targeted by police in crackdown on money laundering and modern slavery

Ten shops were shut down, and further closures are expected after police forces across the country visited 265 cash-focused businesses

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