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 ...

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 ...

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

Following the termination of the international slave trade in 1808, an extensive domestic trade opened between the older slave states such as Virginia and Maryland, and the new territories ...

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 ...

Following the termination of the international slave trade in 1808, an extensive domestic trade opened between the older slave states such as Virginia and Maryland, and the new territories ...

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 ...

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 ...

looting cattle and food as well as abducting women and children for use as domestic slaves and sometimes as "wives" or concubines. The abductees are considered war booty, although the muraheleen ...