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A bill headed for President Barack Obama this week includes a provision that would ban U.S. imports of fish caught by slaves in Southeast Asia, gold mined by children in Africa and garments sewn by abused women in Bangladesh
The Emancipation Proclamation marked the end of American slavery, but the document was actually a military measure.
Painter and children’s book illustrator Kadir Nelson has long created images of the African-American experience. But his first self-authored children’s book (he has illustrated others prior to this), “Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans,” takes the African-American story on, full force.
The Invidiata Team poses for a picture during the annual Free-Them Freedom Walk.
Free Them will hold its 3rd annual Freedom Walk in Toronto on September 15 to raise funds to fight human trafficking.
In granite quarries in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the bonded labor system is—a version of modern slavery—is still common.
Who on Feb. 24, 1841, argues in the US Supreme Court to free Africans who killed a Spanish slave ship captain?
The Shouters chanted songs in a tradition brought to America by enslaved Africans.
Brazilian firm in northern Brazil received $3 million fine from country’s Superior Labor Court over charges of slave labor.
The House of Representatives’s Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a hearing on the topic on March 25.
