and Kevin Bales has argued that this has made modern slavery even worse than that of Atlantic Slave Trade: In the United States before the Civil War, the average slave cost the equivalent of about ...

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or ...

However, in terms of prevalence, forced labour is most common in the Arab States (5.3 per thousand ... systemic barriers that underpin modern slavery, the United Nations University Centre ...

Ten years ago this week the UK government passed the Modern Slavery Act, an innovative piece of legislation aimed at ...

This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes WBD’s group slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ended 31 December 2022.

W ith the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme oppression and violence. But slavery was not just about labor and the ...

In the early decades of the Republic, the United States Congress was a deeply flawed ... those few Americans who actively sought to abolish slavery were treated as a lunatic fringe.

The Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the Organization of American States, Archbishop Juan Antonio Cruz Serrano, calls for ...

“It is shocking that the situation of modern slavery is not improving,” Guy ... labour in a number of countries, including the United States. It also pointed to grave concerns raised by ...

LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - The number of potential modern slavery victims in Britain rose to a record last year, official statistics showed on Thursday, highlighting a growing crime that experts ...

Maryland Del. Aletheia McCaskill, a Democrat, speaks about a bill to create a state commission to study potential reparations for slavery during a news conference with members of the Legislative ...