From skilled artisans and domestic workers to industrial laborers and business owners, Black Virginians played a pivotal role ...

have rescued 60 women this year from modern slavery. Over the past five years, they have rescued over 220. This fearless band of volunteers, known as the Voice of Domestic Workers, perform these ...

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly ...

Affluent liberals' purported compassion bears a striking resemblance to self-interest. In fact, like their 19th-century ...

Society has the right to prevent this, and can only do so by subjecting him to domestic slavery. In the last place, the negro race is inferior to the white race, and living in their midst ...

The ruling class of coastal Swahili society - Sultans, government officials and wealthy merchants - used non-Muslim slaves as domestic servants and to work on farms and estates. The craftsmen ...

In a bombshell revelation published after his death in 2017, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Alex Tizon wrote about growing up in the U.S. with a domestic slave named Lola. Tizon’s grandfather ...

Can freedom be more frightening than enslavement? A European woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for ten years. Marish has been exploited and abused by a woman for whom she toils ...

Washington D.C.: 1850s: The nation's capital is a center of the domestic slave trade; many lawmakers were slaveholders. Slavery is not abolished in Washington, D.C. until 1862. 1838: The Anti ...

Maid in Hell, domestic servants trapped in the Middle East When Maid in Hell, the Why Slavery? episode that documents the trade in and abuse of domestic servants in the Middle East, received a 25 ...