The tangled story of an American pilot who was a slave in China

During the Second World War, an American pilot made an emergency landing near a village. Its inhabitants had never seen an airplane before, just as they had never seen foreigners. But, having surrounded him, pulling his hair, touching his skin and hearing his speech, they decided that it was still a man. Who was not called...

Worked over 100 hours a week: in South Carolina, a restaurant manager made an African-American slave

A white-skinned cafe manager in South Carolina was sentenced to 10 years in prison for enslaving a dark-skinned worker with mental disabilities. For five years, the convict forced the victim to work more than 100 hours a week for free, while often beating him with a belt, writes ...

In New York, a foreign diplomat kept a slave

A high-ranking diplomat from Bangladesh is accused in New York of forcing a servant to work up to 18 hours a day without pay. Mohammed Shaheldul Islam, Deputy Consul General of Bangladesh, has used physical violence and threats to control the victim, Mohammed Amin, for several years. Investigators ...

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