Slavery

‘Bought like a chicken’: struggle to end wahaya slavery in Niger

Al-Husseina Amadou was just one of thousands of girls in west Africa who are still bought cheaply as a wahaya, or ‘fifth wife’

Fred Harter in Niamey

28, Jun, 2022 @6:00 AM

‘You complain, you get fired’: migrant crews on UK fishing boats speak out

Trapped by the terms of their ‘transit visas’, seafarers from outside the EEA are facing exploitation, danger and violence

Karen McVeigh

20, Jun, 2022 @5:30 AM

British history should not be treated as a ‘soft play area’, says David Olusoga

Writer and broadcaster says teaching about the past must not be a way of making people feel good about themselves

Richard Adams Education editor

19, Jun, 2022 @5:22 PM

C of E paid poor 18th-century clergy with ‘abominable’ slave trade funds

Justin Welby says he is ‘deeply sorry for links with transatlantic chattel slavery’

Harriet Sherwood

16, Jun, 2022 @5:22 PM

Rwanda refugee policy is like the rendition of slaves in the 1800s | Letters

Letters: Prof Julia O’Connell Davidson likens the government’s plans to deport asylum seekers to the forced returns facilitated by the Fugitive Slave Act in the US. Plus a letter from Mark Stephens

Letters

16, Jun, 2022 @4:44 PM

Eighteenth-century cockroach found in slave-trading ship ledger

Insect’s journey probably began in West Africa on vessel that sailed from La Rochelle in 1743 to Guinea

Caroline Davies

15, Jun, 2022 @5:05 PM

‘I see this money as not mine’: the people giving away fortunes from slavery and fossil fuels

What would you do if your inherited wealth was built on slavery, fossil fuels or came at the price of neglect? Meet the guilty rich who want nothing to do with their money

Amelia Tait

05, Jun, 2022 @8:00 AM