Slavery

Lincoln Memorial to pull historic documents from public display over fear of heat damage - report

The documents include rare copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, bearing the original signatures of Abraham Lincoln and other Civil War-era officials.

Visitors view the Lincoln Memorial Undercroft during the grand opening on June 25, 2026 in Washington, DC.
US President Donald Trump listens to reporters at the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 8, 2026.

Your Taxes: How Trump's anti-slavery tax proposal could impact Israeli exporters

Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first Encyclical Letter "Magnifica Humanitas" focused on the rise of artificial intelligence, in The Vatican on May 25, 2026.

Pope Leo apologizes for Church's historic role in slavery

MEMBERS OF Australian families believed to be linked to the Islamic State militants wait to leave Roj camp near Derik, Syria April 24, 2026.

Australian women linked to ISIS arrested, accused of slavery after Syrian return


No more sanctioning slavery and oppression

A call to release Eritrean religious prisoners by September 12, the Geez New Year

A boy playing the role of a prisoner has his hands tied during a rally marking Palestinian Prisoners' Day April 17, 2019.

Learning from the past

How have Germans, US southerners, coped with legacy of the Holocaust, American slavery.

JEWS BEING transported by railway during the Holocaust.

Mike Tyson to Poles: You guys didn’t have s**t happen to you

The famous US boxer was in Poland to promote his ‘Black energy’ drink.

Former boxer Mike Tyson reacts as he speaks to the media, before the weigh-in of International Boxing Federation (IBF) World Championship Bout at the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall of China, on the outskirts of Beijing, China, May 24, 2016

Let’s commit to eradicating modern slavery by the next Seder

We are commanded to feel, over the course of our Seder, as if we, too, experienced the ravages of slavery and the redemptive power of liberation.

Passover plate from France

Let’s commit to eradicating modern slavery by the next Seder

We are commanded to feel, over the course of our Seder, as if we, too, experienced the ravages of slavery and the redemptive power of liberation.

Ivanka Trump attends a meeting on action to end modern slavery and human trafficking on the sidelines of the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in Manhattan, New York, U.S

We were once slaves

We were slaves but now we are free. When we sit down at our Seder tonight, we should think long and hard about what that means.

A Passover Seder

Former Labour MP, anti-Israel activist Walker gets support from David Icke

The conspiracy writer, famous for claiming humanity is controlled by space lizards, posed a video in which Walker defends her views that Holocaust Memorial Day should be expanded to include blacks.

UK Labour member Jackie Walker

The Jewish slaveholders

Beyond the antisemitic canards, Jews alternately participated, coopted and resisted slavery.

Judah P. Benjamin, the most prominent Jewish slaveholder in American history