NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that many unsuspecting women from former Communist countries in Eastern Europe are being ... and extremely brutal sex slave trade in Italy. Poggioli talks to some ...

The enslavement of people from west Africa by British, European and African ... the figure for the transatlantic slave trade at more than 11 million people, but numbers are still contested. The total ...

Nor was Europe the only region engaged in the African slave trade. Centuries before Europeans began trading Africans, there was a thriving Middle Eastern slave trade. In the ninth century ...

the transatlantic slave trade. Many school history books feature maps with arrows linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with mindboggling figures and icons representing the commodities exchanged.

Genonese explain, although many antebellum slaveholders were pious, they used faith to justify the American slave trade ... to bypass immigration. An Eastern European slave costs about $500.

MADRID, Spain - Traffickers who subject women and children to prostitution and forced labor are engaged in one of Europe's most lucrative crimes - a $3 billion-per-year modern-day slave trade ...