NEW YORK — A wealthy benefactor of the disgraced leader of an upstate New York self-improvement group has been sentenced to more than six years in prison in connection with a federal sex slave case.

MUSKEGON, Mich. — Consider Abraham Lincoln, John Brown and Frederick Douglass, leaders in America's long and bloody journey to emancipation. Consider this: Douglass believed an additional man deserved ...

The New York doctor who branded “slaves” in the Nxivm sex cult with leader Keith Raniere’s initials has been stripped of her medical license. A state Department of Health hearing committee sustained ...

PLYMOUTH – Winooski is a ghost town that, at one time, supported a U.S. Post Office, a sawmill, grist mill, general store, village hall, cooper, blacksmith, woodworking shops, a cheese factory and a ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After escaping years of sexual slavery, Jennifer Kempton could not look in the mirror without being taken back to her dark, traumatic past. On her neck was ...

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - They do not wear chains, nor are they branded with the mark of their masters, but slaves still exist in Mauritania. In the Saharan Islamic state, a centuries-old system of ...

UCLA is in possession of the first edition print of Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir that describes how he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. The book, of course, is the basis for this year’s ...