Inside Indonesia's slave island: 'I want my children to be free'

INDONESIA: Two hours from the tourist beaches of Bali, slavery is alive and well on the Indonesian island of Sumba, where ...
The Nation

The Mistress’s Tools

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Artnet

Smithsonian Museum Debuts Online Portal of Newly Acquired Slavery Artifacts

The museum acquired the collection, the largest and most complete set of Charleston slave badges, in 2022. 146 slave badges from Charleston, South Carolina. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian National ...
The Washington Post

436 people were put up for sale here. Will the site now be sold or saved?

The place where the clearance sale took place is now a drab industrial area on the west side of Savannah, Georgia, hemmed in by railroad tracks and an interstate freeway. But over two days in March ...
Time

The Forgotten History of a British Ship that Fought a Notorious Slaver—and Won

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The Washington Post

America’s last slave ship is discovered in Alabama waters nearly 160 years later, archaeologists say

Cudjo Lewis remembered the morning he woke at daybreak to a violent raid on his African village, led by a king that had come to capture his people and sell them into slavery. Lewis remembered when the ...
The New York Times

The Slave Trade Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere

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The Atlantic

The Men Who Turned Slavery Into Big Business

Isaac Franklin spent part of Christmas Day 1833 assessing his company’s operations and making plans for the future. Writing from New Orleans to one of his business partners in Virginia, Franklin took ...
Time

America's Interstate Slave Trade Once Trafficked Nearly 30,000 People a Year—And Reshaped the Country's Economy

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