12 Years A Slave: Heroic and harrowing, but necessary?
Steve McQueen’s Oscar frontrunner is only the latest mainstream film to challenge social issues a little too late, writes David Cox.
Slavery
Opinion: Fiction, representation and ‘Django’
Does "Django Unchained" say anything about Hollywood with regard to its handling of sensitive subject matter like slavery?
Wake up and smell the coffee, or find the technoserf dead
Are you sitting on a sofa that has helped destroy the rainforest? Wearing jeans that caused silicosis in those producing them? You may well be.
Slaves — going cheap!
Slavery is not invisible and it is happening
everywhere so why, and how, does it persist? A new documentary takes a closer look.
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Four due in British court on slavery charges
Four men have been charged with slavery offences after British police freed 24 men from a travellers’ caravan site in England.
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Slavery: That peculiar institution
The recent arrest of anti-slavery protesters in Mauritania has highlighted the fact that slavery is not a relic of the past.
Mauritanian activist jailed after anti-slavery protest
A Mauritanian court has sentenced an anti-slavery activist to three months in prison, while eight others accused of "rebellion" were acquitted.
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‘Slave’ workers demand their due
The only place in the world where the East German flag still flies is on the streets of Maputo.
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Slaves between a rock and hard place
In a quiet moment it’s not hard to imagine the despair of slaves who once laboured at Robben Island.
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Woman wins slavery case against Niger
A West African court of justice convicted the state of Niger on Monday for failing to protect a 12-year-old girl from being sold into slavery.
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Spike Lee: ‘We’re not on a plantation, Clint’
The acrimonious feud between two of Hollywood’s best-known film directors reached a new level of name-calling and accusation at the weekend as Spike Lee invoked America’s bitter legacy of slavery in response to Clint Eastwood’s comments to the Guardian on Friday.
