Memphis, a majority black city, can't take down a statue honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest because state law blocks the removal of Confederate monuments. By Liliana Segura. (Sept. 2, 2017)

More than 40 million people were estimated to be victims of modern slavery in 2016 -- and one in four of those were children. Those are the findings of a new report produced by the International Labor Organization (ILO), a U.N. agency focusing on labor rights, and the Walk Free Foundation, an international NGO working to end modern slavery. The report estimates that last year, 25 million people were in forced labor -- made to work under threat or coercion -- and 15 million people were in forced marriage.

On the colonial colouring of the culinary calamity the British call a cup of tea. By Hamid Dabashi.

A Tennessee town’s absurd and tacky monument to General Nathan Bedford Forrest. By Connor Towne O'Neill.

Modern slavery and human trafficking is far more prevalent than previously thought, with a recent crackdown lifting the lid on the scale of the crime and potentially tens of thousands of victims in the UK, the National Crime Agency has said.

Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852.

Archeologists have excavated an area of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion and uncovered the slave quarters of Sally Hemings.

On Juneteenth, the day that commemorates the ending of slavery in the US, a historian dispels myths about the 'peculiar institution' of slavery.

African-American leaders in Arizona are the next to call for the swift removal of the state’s Confederate monuments, joining an overall cry across the nation by those who know that the monuments celebrate slavery and racism and, generally, just the wrong side of history. By Breanna Edwards. (June 5, 2017)

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu destroyed all justifications for having Confederate monuments in his city. By Charles P. Pierce.

Slavery still exists today. And it exists in the Gulf states and in Saudi Arabia. By Christiane Saliba.

And why it hasn't faced the same controversy as New Orleans or Charlottesville

She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was. By Alex Tizon.

President Trump’s revisionist, Andrew Jackson-related history can be traced to none other than Steve Bannon. By Asawin Suebsaeng.

Moving messages of both anger and forgiveness.

A new book asks important questions about slaves’ perspectives on their auctions, including an enslaved father who fought to buy his son at auction. By Daina Ramey Berry.

In Search of Ashley’s Sack. By Mark Auslander.

What do stories about the anti-slavery effort teach us—and spare us from learning—about ourselves and our nation? By Kathryn Schulz.

The story goes like this: in late Nov­ember 1862, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the abolitionist novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, travelled to Washington, DC. Union soldiers had recently defeated Confederate troops at Antietam… By Ari Kelman.

As the museum opens, a writer sees her own story inside the building. By Robin Givhan.