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Modern-Day Slavery

I found this short excerpt on NPR tonight. Slavery is still exists. Yeah, I thought, in symbolic way. But, author Benjamin Skinner writes in A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery, that you can still buy people - yes, human beings for sale - today. Check it out at Author Struggles to Stay Removed from Slave Trade and read an excerpt from his book online.

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One Response to “Modern-Day Slavery”

  1. Sarah Says:
    May 7th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    This article made me a little sick. He is enlightening us on a horrible situation but not doing much about it. How could you walk way from those situations and not feel guilt and sick feelings toward yourself for enabling it to continue….

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