Tech companies are offering AI companions as a convenient cure for the loneliness epidemic, but there have been other forms of faux relationships, and they tend to have more to do with ego than heart.

"The pervasive influence of the law of slavery on contemporary American law raises hard questions," says Justin Simard of the Citing Slavery Project.

A new history book makes the case that the small island of Bermuda is nothing less than "the crucible of colonization."

Understanding when, where and why fishing vessels sometimes turn off their transponders is a key step toward curbing illegal fishing and other crimes on the high seas.

"Emancipations always happened on the terms of the enslavers," says historian Kris Manjapra, author of a new book on what he calls "ghostlining."

"The labor conditions of incarcerated workers in many US prisons violate the most fundamental human rights to life and dignity," says Claudia Flores.

Artificial intelligence and low-cost satellite imagery combine to spot forced labor at deforestation sites in Brazil's Amazon rainforest.

Although slaveholders devalued enslaved people with disabilities, a new book shows their integral contributions to their communities.

Although slaveholders devalued enslaved people with disabilities, a new book shows their integral contributions to their communities.

Sugar has deep links with slavery in the US, but Black workers weren’t the only ones affected. In post-Civil War Louisiana, Chinese workers also toiled cutting and processing cane.