After a recent investigation into slave markets found on apps like Instagram, Kuwaiti authorities have officially summonsed the alleged owners of accounts connected to the selling of domestic workers ...

Silicon Valley is helping the global slave trade thrive — and critics argue it should be held accountable for facilitating the barbarous practice. Posing as a husband and wife, a team from BBC News ...

Editor’s note: This two-part look into the history of the Market House was originally published in 2016. Let’s all go down to the Market House, where no one goes much anymore, to sift through pieces ...

If you’ve taken a trip to America’s Oldest City, you’ve most likely seen the Old Slave Market at the east end of the plaza. However, the realities of what happened there nearly two centuries ago -- ...

Harriet, a 21-year-old Black woman, was one of many people sold at auction near what is now Court Square Fountain in downtown Montgomery. Montgomery was a major hub for the slave trade, with numerous ...

NATCHEZ, Miss. -- The National Park Service last week accepted a Mississippi city's donation of land at a site once one of the largest slave markets in the United States. The federal agency eventually ...

Although the importation of slaves was outlawed in 1807, the domestic slave trade remained a major economic establishment in America until the Civil War. Before its retrocession to Virginia, the city ...

LOUISVILLE, Ga. — The city council in Louisville, Georgia decided this week to remove what historians describe as one of the most historic monuments in the state. The city is located near Augusta. The ...

Marvel Cooke, a seasoned African American labor activist and member of the Communist Party, wrote this set of investigative reports for the New York-based radical newspaper The Daily Compass in ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Officials said a historical marker in Tennessee noting the location of a slave market owned by Nathan Bedford Forrest was cracked from its base in a possible act of vandalism.