Slavery
Will Canada stand with Uyghurs—and against ‘modern slavery?’
Some of the world’s biggest brands are benefitting from the forced labour of Uyghurs in China, reports say. A bill before Parliament would target those companies and their products.
The people of Colorado just voted to abolish slavery—here’s why
A 142-year-old passage in the state constitution allowed involuntary servitude for prisoners. It hasn’t been easy to get rid of
Esi Edugyan on why readers can’t get tired of books about slavery
Canadian author Esi Edugyan: ‘We have to be on guard against darker things. To not discuss them is to open up the potential for a blind spot or forgetting.’
Why a slave who’d escaped to Canada kept in touch with her mistress
Cecelia Jane Reynolds corresponded with her former owner. Was it real friendship, or a desire to free her family?
Colson Whitehead on reimagining America’s history of racism
‘I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved,’ says Colson Whitehead, author of ‘The Underground Railroad’
A novelistic tour de force about American slavery
A recent Oprah’s Book Club pick gets top marks
Book review: Delicious foods
James Hannaham’s new novel explores slavery through a satirical lens
The U.K.’s domestic slavery shame
Recent high-profile cases of domestic bondage are just the tip of a disturbing social trend
Caribbean nations demand payment for slavery-era damages
Will Britain, France and the Netherlands pay up?
Race and racing: An English icon wades into the ‘slave genes’ controversy
Sir Roger Bannister raises a controversial thesis at the London Olympic Games
Come to think of it, why use “volunteers” to run the Olympics?
Don’t tell anybody, but I’m rather tickled that the Queen Charlotte Islands have been given back the name of the slaveholding empire that was once centred there. Such a cheeky gesture! So politically incorrect! So contrary to the stifling liberal spirit of our age! It is almost literally as if Mississippi got renamed Whitetopia; and yet the progressives are simply falling over themselves with naïve praise. I raise a glass to you and shoot you a sly wink, Government of British Columbia!
Slavery in Darfur
A report published Wednesday alleges the widespread enslavement of non-Arab men, women, and children in Sudan’s Darfur region by the Sudanese army and its Janjaweed militia allies. The report by the Darfur Consortium also documents the spreading nature of the violence, as ethnically cleansed non-Arab villages Darfur are populated by Arab nomads from Chad, Niger, Mali, and Cameroon. I reported on this trend two years ago while on assignment in eastern Chad, a no-man’s land bordering Darfur.