A task force of lawmakers and historians is recommending that Illinois create a full-time commission to commemorate the ...

The measure would have amended the state’s constitution to repeal language that allows involuntary servitude as a form of ...

Forced labor as punishment for crime is legal in many states due to an exception clause in the 13th Amendment of the U.S.

Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Store and/or access information on a ...

Authorities in several of the states are also investigating the anonymous messages, which told recipients — as young as ...

Some instructed the recipient to show up at an address at a particular time “with your belongings,” while others didn’t ...

A whirlwind of color and art at the opening of this year’s Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art in the Senegalese ...

Other states, including Nevada, are deleting references to slavery in their constitutions and banning forced prison labor. California voters rejected that path when they turned down Prop. 6.

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their ...