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Nigerian Kehinde Avose wears chains on his neck while re-enacting the days of slavery for American visitors in the former slave port of Badagry town south-west Nigeria August 25, 2002. More than fifty black Americans, including seven mayors, are in Lagos for the Second Black Heritage Festival.

Four people arrested for supposedly enslaving mentally disabled man for 17 years in Portugal

By REUTERS
 Social Democratic Party (PSD) and Democratic Alliance (AD) leader Luis Montenegro talks to the media after meeting with President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa in Belem Palace, following the general elections in Lisbon, Portugal, March 20, 2024.

Portugal must 'pay costs' of slavery and colonial crimes, president says

By REUTERS
 Tony's Chocolonelli: the chocolate that engraves on its flag fair trade, without child slavery and exploitation of the weak

The chocolate brand that started the fight against slavery

 Jon Bernthal and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in a scene from "Origin."

‘Origin’ story: How Ava DuVernay’s new movie connects the Holocaust, slavery and caste

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
 SIMON DENG and a fellow South Sudanese volunteer picking strawberries on Kibbutz Kedima Zoran.

Former African slave leads solidarity march to Jerusalem

A view shows a "bakery-prison" where slaves and donkeys were locked up to grind the grain needed to make bread, in the ancient archeological site of Pompeii, Italy, in this handout photo obtained by Reuters on December 8, 2023.

Bakery 'prison' uncovered in Ancient Rome's Pompeii

By REUTERS
 West Palm Beach.

Florida JCC canceled slavery-focused talk with Jewish author, citing ‘current political climate'

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
 Highway police in Brazil.

Brazil rescues hundreds held in modern-day slave conditions

By REUTERS
 Ruins in Pompeii.

Pompeii archaeologists discover find that throws light on life of slaves

By REUTERS
A formerly enslaved resident of Philadelphia.

DNA of enslaved iron workers illuminates African American history

By REUTERS
US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on stage at "Get Out the Vote" rally at UCLA, in Los Angeles, California, US, November 7, 2022.

US VP Harris blasts Florida 'extremists' over education guidelines about slavery

By REUTERS
 A gladiator in armor

Were there Jewish gladiators in the Roman Empire?

 Alexander Gardner’s portrait of Abraham Lincoln, taken on November 8, 1863.

Passover: Landmark moments in history in the quest for freedom

By MICHAEL KATZ
 Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are escorted by police officers outside the headquarters of the Bucharest Court of Appeal, in Bucharest, Romania, January 10, 2023.

Ex-kickboxer Andrew Tate says Romanian prosecutors have no evidence against him

By REUTERS
 Senegal's "House of Slaves"

Yellen, at former slave port, sees path of renewal for Africa and US

By REUTERS
 Bodies of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Church of England knew of slavery links, to address 'shameful' past

By REUTERS