As the United States continues to confront the realities and legacy of slavery, Americans continue to challenge myths about the country’s history. One enduring myth is that slavery was a largely male ...

This post is co-written by Lauryn Tham, an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California. When you imagine a sex trafficker, do you picture some scary man lurking in the shadows of a ...

They didn’t know how bad it was. That was how James Redpath, a northern journalist who toured the South in the 1850s, explained white southern women’s support for slavery to his readers. He reckoned ...

v. 1. Africa, the Indian Ocean world, and the medieval north Atlantic -- v. 2. The modern Atlantic v. 1: Africa, the Indian Ocean world, and the medieval North Atlantic. I. Women in domestic slavery ...

This story contains offensive language and descriptions of sexual abuse. On an August morning in 2022, a young woman slipped out of a house in suburban Wisconsin and dashed to a waiting police car.

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 40 million people were trapped as slaves last year in forced labor and forced marriages, most of them women and girls, according to the first joint ...

Brazil has seen a surge in the number of foreign nationals and women rescued from forced labor conditions, a form of human trafficking also known as modern slavery, according to a new report. The ...

African and African-descended women appear fleetingly and anonymously as musicians and listeners in physical sources created during slavery, what we might call the traditional historical record. When ...

The Ohio State University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. As the United States continues to confront the realities and legacy of slavery, Americans continue to challenge ...

As the United States continues to confront the realities and legacy of slavery, Americans continue to challenge myths about the country’s history. One enduring myth is that slavery was a largely male ...