Slavery

Theatre: How Britain is facing up to its hidden slavery history (PHOTOS)

New play The Whip is one of several new stories bringing attention to the nation’s involvement in the historic slave trade. Holly Williams asks its writer why they are so Read More

Hundreds of boys, men freed from torture building in Nigeria

LAGOS, Nigeria (Associated Press) — Hundreds of boys and men have been rescued from a building in northern Nigeria where they had been beaten, starved, sexually assaulted and chained, police Read More

Wikipedia’s Article of the Day September 17, 2019: Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman (1822–1913) was an African-American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped in 1849, then returned 13 times to rescue approximately 70 of her enslaved family and Read More

Today in History – September 9 The Stono Rebellion -LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (photos)

Early on the morning of Sunday, September 9, 1739, twenty black Carolinians met near the Stono River, approximately twenty miles southwest of Charleston. At Stono’s bridge, they took guns and Read More

Educated and Enslaved; Omar Bin Said’s journey

A portrait of Omar Ibn Said around the 1850s. Photo courtesy of Yale University Library. Opening image of the Omar Ibn Said project. New: Omar Bin Said Story Map July Read More

UGANDA: Museveni regime involved in modern slavery, human trafficking

Uganda’s Gender, Labour and Social Development minister Janat Mukwaya signs a pact on behalf of Uganda with a Saudi Arabia official on export of labour recently Ministers involved in human Read More