A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

Great Migrations: A People on The Move is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, ...

We were slaves for two hundred and fifty years ... and it will kill all the weeds in the cotton field. That means that nobody will be chopping cotton this spring. Then, this fall, you’re ...

Around 100 women were kept as slaves on a human egg farm in Georgia where they were fed hormones and treated like cattle. Their horrifying ordeal has been revealed by three Thai women who were ...

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Mario Tama / Getty Images Slavery reparations are restitution payments for slavery remitted to the descendants of enslaved people. In theory, American slavery reparations would be paid by entities ...

Marissa, 54, and her colleagues Mimi Jalmasco, 49, and Grace Nine, 50, have rescued 60 women this year from modern slavery. Over the past five years, they have rescued over 220. This fearless band ...

Two teenage girls were treated as "sex slaves" by a gang of Asian men from Rochdale who "abused, degraded and then discarded" them over a five-year period, a court has heard. Eight men have gone ...

Two vulnerable girls were treated as ‘sex slaves’ by a group of Asian men in Rochdale, a trial has heard. Eight men deny sexual offences allegedly committed against the two girls, who were ...

10 million more people were in modern slavery in 2021 compared to 2016 global estimates, bringing the total to 50 million worldwide. Women and children remain disproportionately vulnerable.

The contraband cotton slaves of South Carolina have, to some extent, been employed in the necessary work, and with good results. There are, according to the estimates made by one of our ...

In the west of Britain, there's one of the largest Roman buildings ever discovered in Britain, an Iron Age chariot is saved, and evidence is found of the transatlantic slave trade in Devon.