Modern Slave Narratives
August 05, 2021 Laura T. Murphy Story
In Search of Freedomville
In a tiny speck of a village in Uttar Pradesh, India, a community of rock quarry miners have given their cluster of thatched roofed houses the name Azad Nagar. Freedomville. The miners named their village in 2000, only a few months after they staged a slave revolt that overthrew the profit-driven landowners who had held their families in slavery in rock quarries for generations. If you search for Azad Nagar on a map, you won’t find it. To everyone else, it’s called Sonbarsa. Located in the poorest province in one of the poorest countries in the world, Sonbarsa is a barren, rocky, plot of land in the middle of one of the most densely populated states in the world.
January 04, 2016 Story
Ravi Shanker Kumar
More than 300,000 children are estimated to be trapped in India’s carpet industry.
January 05, 2015 Story
James Annan
January 04, 2015 Story
Ishmael Beah
January 03, 2015 Story
Shamere McKenzie
January 02, 2015 Story
Vannak Prum
January 01, 2015 Story
Flor Molina
February 20, 2014 Story
