Why Slave Labor Still Plagues The Global Food System : The Salt As consumers, we are at one end of a food supply chain that sometimes leads back to slavery, a State Department report on human ...

Modern slavery is not the same as the slavery of old (even if that, depressingly, also exists in today’s world). Many modern-day slaves are, ostensibly, “free” to leave their workplace.

Today’s slave labor doesn’t look the way it did a hundred years ago. Instead, it involves poor people in developing countries trying to find work at clothing and shoe factories and finding ...

To help atone for its past use of slave labor to build parts of its Alexandria, Virginia campus, the seminary recently announced a $1.7 million reparations fund to be used to aid the descendants ...

Labor Day became a holiday in the U.S. after the Civil War ended, but the history of slavery still offers an important lesson for the day.

But slavery — labor that dehumanizes one person for the profit of another — has no place in prisons or in the Constitution. We need a national dialog about amending the 13th Amendment.

Between 1632 and 1760, records show that 734 Indigenous children were enslaved in France's North American colony, historian ...

Voters in five U.S. states where slavery or involuntary servitude remains legal as a punishment for people who are convicted of crimes will vote next month on whether to ban the practices outright.

Scrutiny over prison labor has existed for decades, but the 13th Amendment’s loophole in particular encouraged former Confederate states after the Civil War to devise new ways to maintain the ...