According to the Columbus State University archives, by 1860, 37% of the city’s population was enslaved. Several slaves are buried in The Porterdale Cemetery located on the corner of 10th Ave. and ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” – while they were being shipped to a ...

A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

In the west of Britain, there's one of the largest Roman buildings ever discovered in Britain, an Iron Age chariot is saved, and evidence is found of the transatlantic slave trade in Devon.

As Business of Fashion reports, the U.S. State Department has had its sights set on this local industry for years, but also warns that when it comes to modern slavery ... and third is cotton picking.

The CFR Global Trade Tracker allows you to gauge trends in international trade through time. The map below compiles trade data from 178 countries as reported to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

KARACHI: The overall trend showed a mixed situation in cotton prices previous week ... the world’s largest textile trade fair held in Frankfurt, Germany, according to Imran Mehmood, Central ...

Las Vegas has the No. 6 overall pick -- so there are no guarantees Sanders is wearing Silver and Black in September. If the Raiders trade up to No. 1 overall, that can, of course, happen.

The WNBA offseason has its first big trade with former No. 1 pick Kelsey Plum joining Cameron Brink and the LA Sparks in a three-team trade. The Las Vegas Aces are getting star guard Jewell Loyd ...

Price supports for cotton are necessary, so the politicos say, to protect the nation’s host of small farmers. But last week Delaware’s Senator John Williams dug out facts to show that the ...