The movement’s lawyers want detailed language delineating what constitutes involuntary servitude so courts can be compelled to defend prisoners’ rights against forced labor. At the same time, ...

“If we want to survive, we’ll have to work for them.” Pedro (not his real name) is a member of a riverside community in Amazonas, talking about criminal enterprises that are turning the forests into ...

The UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (UN Trafficking Protocol), adopted in 2000, is often credited with the first international ...

Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave (1796) by William Blake. Wikimedia/Public domain. The contemporary movement against ‘modern-day slavery’ makes a grave ...

A Cincinnati, Ohio, home that functioned as a stop on the Underground Railroad; the photo was taken ca. 1905. Division, crisis, and political violence are hardly new in the history of the United ...

Farmington, N.H., native Henry Wilson was elected to public office for the first time in 1840 when he won his bid to represent his adopted hometown of Natick, Mass. in the state’s House of ...

Introduction: "Our Rights as Moral Beings" -- Prelude: Breaking Away from Slave Society -- Seeking a Voice: Garrisonian Abolitionist Women, 1831-1833 -- Women Claim the Right to Act: Angelina and ...

Some findings of a research conducted by the University College London, in collaboration with University of Ibadan, titled: African Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in Africa ...

Historian Jennifer Cromack points out the word "Slavery" on a recently found, 178-year-old anti-slavery scroll at Grotonwood, the home mission of The American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts, ...

In his new book, The Conductor, Caleb Franz tells the story of Reverend John Rankin, a pioneering Ohio abolitionist who helped about 2,000 people flee from slavery. When Reverend John Rankin moved to ...