Freeing the slaves in America was not done with the stroke of a pen. President Abraham Lincoln and other anti-slavery ...

California's Proposition 6 and Nevada's Question 4 sounded like similar prison reforms. But key differences may explain the ...

Arguments about reparations rumbled once again this week as the King spoke at the Commonwealth summit in Samoa.

Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Manisha ...

But history, like people, can be full of contradictions. When it came to Britain's pioneering efforts to abolish slavery, in the early 19th Century, research by historian Prof Suzanne Schwarz ...

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) "In California, slavery is abolished, but involuntary servitude isn’t. There's been a lot of back-and-forth about this," said Dennis Febo, a lead ...

Britain also had a key role in ending the trade, through Parliament's passage of a law to abolish slavery in 1833. As part of that law, British plantation owners were paid for the loss of their ...

The book is based on two decades of research into abolition, universal freedom and justice. In it, I explore the role played ...

The measure would have amended the state’s constitution to repeal language that allows involuntary servitude as a form of ...

Forced labor as punishment for crime is legal in many states due to an exception clause in the 13th Amendment of the U.S.

Abolish Slavery National Network co-founder Jamilia Land, who advocated for the initiative targeting forced prison labor, ...