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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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2 Responses 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….

  2. Gerald Everett Says:
    November 12th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

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