When manual laborer Alison Moreira dos Santos moved across Brazil for a job on a sugarcane plantation in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais in March, he expected to work hard.

Paul Lashmar is affiliated with the Labour Party. Rich British aristocratic families with a legacy of owning colonial slave plantations are often accused by campaigners that their wealth solely ...

The public reaction to the burning of the Nottoway plantation, the largest remaining antebellum-era structure in the South, has been mixed. While many, particularly Black Americans, celebrate the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Victims of slave labor in Brazil are less likely to be rescued following a government decree that changes the country's definition of slavery and weakens ...