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The Return of the Global Slave Trade--and How We Can Fight It
Harper
February 2007
On Sale: February 1, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0061206717
EAN: 9780061206719
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Non-Fiction
Award–winning journalist David Batstone reveals the
story of a new generation of 21st century abolitionists and
their heroic campaign to put an end to human bondage. In his
accessible and inspiring book, Batstone carefully weaves the
narratives of activists and those in bondage in a way that
not only raises awareness of the modern–day slave
trade, but also serves as a call to action. With
2007 bringing the 200th anniversary of the climax of the
19th century abolitionist movement, the world pays tribute
to great visionary figures such as William Wilberforce of
the United Kingdom and American Frederick Douglass for their
remarkable strides toward framing slavery as a moral issue
that people of good conscience could not tolerate. This
anniversary serves not only as a commemorative date for
battles won against slavery, but also as a reminder that
slavery and bondage still persist in the 21st century. An
estimated 27 million people around the globe suffer in
situations of forced labor and commercial sexual
exploitation from which they cannot free themselves.
Trafficking in people has become increasingly transnational
in scope and highly lucrative. After illegal drug sales and
arms trafficking, human trafficking is today the third most
profitable criminal activity in the world, generating $31
billion annually. As many as half of all those trafficked
worldwide for sex and domestic slavery are children under 18
years of age.
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