Court cases show how middlemen take advantage of shortcomings in U.S. visa programs, compounding abuses foreign workers face even before they arrive in America. By Megan Twohey, Mica Rosenberg and Ryan McNeill. (Feb. 19)

Kevin Bales’ book, Blood and Earth, explains why slavery in the world's lawless zones is essential to operate mines that pose a grave threat to the environment. With Dave Davies.

Lavender and gold silhouettes of soldiers on horseback, waves, and a kneeling figure overlap on the flat plane of Aaron Douglas’s “Let My People Go” (1935–39)... By Allison Meier.

The plaintiffs, originally from Mali, contend the companies aided and abetted human rights violations. By Lawrence Hurley.

According to the latest figures from the Global Slavery Index 35.8 million people are estimated to be held under slave conditions. While Mauritania, Uzbekistan, Haiti, Qatar and India round out the top 5 countries with the most people trapped in slavery, a large chunk of Latin America is said to be home to a number of slaves. This is the second year the index has been published.

In Savannah, the largest single sale of human beings in U.S. history. By Rosalind Bentley.

It’s 2015, and more than 20 million people are still held in some form of slavery all over the world. Traveling deep into the Amazon, William Langewiesche discovers why an unspeakable degradation is proving so hard to combat—and finds a man of God who has dedicated his life to the fight.

After the Charleston shootings, South Carolina removed the copy of a Civil War battle flag from the statehouse grounds. And that was just the beginning of this tangled tale. By Kevin M. Levin.

Forty-eight hours in Gstaad, made for Instagram. By Maureen O'Connor.

After the Civil War, workers struggled to make wage labor go the way of chattel slavery.

On the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment, we should reflect on the arduous battle to rid the nation once and for all of the ‘peculiar institution.’ By Kevin M. Levin.

Last week I arrived back home to Iraqi Kurdistan, exhausted but proud of a small but real triumph over the Islamic State. Three women and two toddlers came back with me—five human beings just rescued from enslavement by ISIL. For over a year, they were abused, raped and traded fighter to fighter because of one reason: our Yazid religion. I am determined to save every last one of the more than 2,000 Yazidi women...

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands

President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery.

An educational video game has been edited following a social media backlash over a scene depicting slaves being packed into a ship. The creators of "Playing History: Slave Trade" removed a level Monday which featured black slave characters being dropped into a ship similar to the video game "Tetris." "Apologies to people who were offended by us using game mechanics to underline the point of how inhumane slavery was," read a statement posted on the game's page...

Auditors completing their annual report continue to find evidence of child labour on Ivory Coast farms supplying Nestlé. By Joe Sandler Clarke.

Invited to the U.S., foreign workers find a nightmare. By Jessica Garrison, Ken Bensinger and Jeremy Singer-Vine.

Prosecutors on Friday moved to indict 72 people, including a senior army officer, in a multinational human-trafficking ring revealed when dozens of bodies were unearthed in the jungles of Songkhla province.

A new BBC documentary tells how a trove of documents lays bare the names of Britain’s 46,000 slave owners, including relatives of Gladstone and Orwell.

The United States is upgrading Malaysia from the lowest tier on its list of worst human trafficking centers, U.S. sources said on Wednesday, a move that could smooth the way for an ambitious U.S.-led free-trade deal with the Southeast Asian nation and 11 other countries...