Amanda Wixon, 56, was jailed for 13 years for enslaving a vulnerable woman with learning disabilities for over 25 years. Wixon physically and emotionally abused the victim, forcing labour, withholding ...

A UK judge on Thursday jailed for 13 years a mother-of-10 who forced a vulnerable woman to work as a “house slave” for more than two decades. Amanda Wixon subjected the woman, who was a teenager when ...

A mother who held a woman captive as a slave inside her "squalid" home for 25 years has been sentenced to 13 years. Amanda Wixon, 56, forced the woman - now in her 40s - to shave her hair, regularly ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, ...

A young woman kept as a slave for 25 years is still terrified of her abuser and calls her ‘The Witch’, her foster carer has revealed. Amanda Wixon, 56, was jailed on Thursday for 13 years after being ...

‘For 25 years, I lived in fear, control and abuse. I was treated as though my life, my freedom and my voice did not matter.’ Those are the words of a woman who, from 1995 until 2021, was kept as a ...

Acknowledge the past. Repair the present. Build a future of dignity and justice. The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, which operated between the fifteenth and late nineteenth centuries, ...

Historians often compare today's political polarization to the decade preceding the American Civil War. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intensified conflicts between federal authorities and Northern ...

Modbus remains widely used in industrial settings and the market is expected to grow from $1.2 billion to $2.5 billion by 2033, making it far from obsolete despite being an older protocol with no ...

A federal judge ruled an exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington must be put back up at his former home in Philadelphia. The ruling came Monday by U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe ...

Throughout February, WTOP is celebrating Black History Month. Join us on-air and online as we bring you the stories, people and places that make up our diverse community. The historic slave auction ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. A vivid rumor began circulating in the United States in the middle of ...