From skilled artisans and domestic workers to industrial laborers and business owners, Black Virginians played a pivotal role ...

Society has the right to prevent this, and can only do so by subjecting him to domestic slavery. In the last place, the negro race is inferior to the white race, and living in their midst ...

Affluent liberals' purported compassion bears a striking resemblance to self-interest. In fact, like their 19th-century forebears, modern Democrats seem to fancy themselves benefactors to those whom ...

The ruling class of coastal Swahili society - Sultans, government officials and wealthy merchants - used non-Muslim slaves as domestic servants and to work on farms and estates. The craftsmen ...

Slavery, once associated with the brutal chains of colonial conquests and plantations, has not disappeared. Instead, it has evolved ...

Washington D.C.: 1850s: The nation's capital is a center of the domestic slave trade; many lawmakers were slaveholders. Slavery is not abolished in Washington, D.C. until 1862. 1838: The Anti ...

Can freedom be more frightening than enslavement? A European woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for ten years. Marish has been exploited and abused by a woman for whom she toils ...

Maid in Hell, domestic servants trapped in the Middle East When Maid in Hell, the Why Slavery? episode that documents the trade in and abuse of domestic servants in the Middle East, received a 25 ...

In the UK, modern slavery can take many forms - domestic slavery or forced labour on farms, in construction, in warehouses, in bars and many other industries. Although modern slavery can involve ...