Working with Free the Slaves staffers on the ground in slavery hotspots, Kristine found herself shooting in dicey situations. “I am not a photojournalist.

89 million The number of people who have experienced some form of slavery in the last five years. The average length of time victims were forced to work varied from a few days to five years. And ...

Dec. 20 -- As Mae Miller tells it, she spent her youth in Mississippi as a slave, "picking cotton, pulling corn, picking peas, picking butter beans, picking string beans, digging potatoes.

A man who is believed to be a victim of modern slavery in the UK was rescued this week from a decrepit shed — where he is believed to have lived for the past 40 years. Officers found the 58-year ...

India has by far the greatest number of modern slaves, at 13.9 million, followed by China (2.9 million), Pakistan (2.1 million) and Nigeria (701,000). But it’s not as though countries in the ...

A McDonald’s restaurant and a bread factory in England missed signs of modern slavery for years while a human trafficking gang forced its victims to work for the companies, according to a report.

The State Department estimates that there are "at least 2,510 girls and women bound to various shrines in the Trokosi system, a figure that does not include the slaves' children." When these ...

Strategic litigation broke the back of the British slave trade. In 1772, James Somerset, an escaped slave brought to England by his owner, Charles Stewart, sued for his freedom. In the case ...

James Cage is said to have once owned a slave who fathered a child with General Robert E. Lee’s father, Henry Lee. She named the son Coleman Lee.