The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

In a short few weeks, President Donald Trump has upended many core parts and functions of the U.S. government. He dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development and fired thousands of government employees. He has also fired several inspectors general and board members of independent agencies.

Margaret Morgan was born into slavery in Maryland and had been living with her husband and their children in the free state of Pennsylvania for five years when hired slavecatchers led by Edward Prigg seized them one night in 1837

Gil was a vocal critic of Japan’s refusal to take legal responsibility for wartime atrocities

As the US rips up its rules-based order and threatens sovereign nations, this is the time to make allies. Reparations might help, says Liliane Umubyeyi of the African Futures Lab

Rep. Ayanna Pressley has reintroduced H.R. 40, a bill to study reparations for slavery, amid President Trump's dismantling of DEI initiatives.

Thailand's army says some 260 people believed to have been trafficked and trapped into working in online scam centers are to be repatriated after they were rescued from Myanmar

Postal Museum says research featured in new exhibition shows how global postal service was ‘tool of empire’

Weather-induced disasters that are the result of climate change are increasingly affecting societies. One area that hasn’t been explored much yet is how extreme weather events are creating conditions for a rise in modern slavery.

That's not the best way to say it, but Dennis Schroder has a point.