How rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendants

When enslaved Africans escaped the Surinamese plantations overseen by Dutch colonists from the 17th to the 19th century, several women ingeniously hid rice grains in…

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Brazilian beef farms ‘used workers kept in conditions similar to slavery’

Brazilian companies and slaughterhouses including the world’s largest meat producer, JBS, sourced cattle from supplier farms that made use of workers kept in slavery-like conditions,…

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