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The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today
In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States.
In The Slave Next Door we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher in the kitchen of the neighborhood restaurant, the kids on the corner selling cheap trinkets, the man sweeping the floor of the local department store.
In these pages we also meet some unexpected slaveholders, such as a 27-year old middle-class Texas housewife who is currently serving a life sentence for offences including slavery.
Weaving together a wealth of voices--from slaves, slaveholders, and traffickers as well as from experts, counselors, law enforcement officers, rescue and support groups, and others--this book is also a call to action, telling what we, as private citizens, can do to finally bring an end to this horrific crime.
In The Slave Next Door we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher in the kitchen of the neighborhood restaurant, the kids on the corner selling cheap trinkets, the man sweeping the floor of the local department store.
In these pages we also meet some unexpected slaveholders, such as a 27-year old middle-class Texas housewife who is currently serving a life sentence for offences including slavery.
Weaving together a wealth of voices--from slaves, slaveholders, and traffickers as well as from experts, counselors, law enforcement officers, rescue and support groups, and others--this book is also a call to action, telling what we, as private citizens, can do to finally bring an end to this horrific crime.
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First published January 1, 2009
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Kevin Bales
33 books99 followersWhy I had to write Blood and Earth ...
For years I traveled the world meeting people in slavery trying to understand the depth and truth of their lives. What I saw, heard, and learned changed me, and led me deeper into the work of ending slavery, but I was missing something important. Where there are slaves, the environment is under assault, forests are being destroyed, endangered species are dying, and climate change is worsening – and all of this destruction is driven by profits from products we buy.
Children, especially, are suffering: in the fish camps of Bangladesh, in the mines of Eastern Congo feeding the electronics industry, in mercury-saturated gold pits in Ghana, and when brutally used and disposed of by criminals decimating the Amazon forest. And beside the children, endangered species are being wiped out, or pressed to fight back - like the ‘protected' Bengal tigers that prey on child slaves in fishing camps.
After seven years of research and travel we now know that if slavery were a country it would be the third largest producer of CO2 in the world after China and the USA, though its population is only the size of Canada’s. The scale of this joint disaster has been too big to see, until now. Yet, it is precisely the role that slaves play in this ecological catastrophe that opens a new solution, one that unleashes the power of abolition to save and preserve the natural world.
To hear more about Blood and Earth tune in to NPR’s Fresh Air on Tuesday 19 January, and check out an excerpt in Scientific American HERE.
I'm a guy that grew up in Oklahoma thinking if the whole world is as quiet as this place I better cram life to the fullest. The good news: the world is often much more interesting than Oklahoma. I lived a long time in London, and now live in DC. For the last 14 years all my work has been about modern slavery - real slavery, not sweatshops, or bad marriages, or not being able to stop shopping. Back in 1999 I published a book about contemporary slavery that changed my life. It went into 10 languages, got made into a movie, won some prizes, stuff like that. Since then I've published three more books, and three more will come out in 2008.
In Sept 2007 I published a book that is a plan for the eradication of global slavery. It's called Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves. This is what people said about it:
“None of us is truly free while others remain enslaved. The continuing existence of slavery is one of the greatest tragedies facing our global humanity. Today we finally have the means and increasingly the conviction to end this scourge and to bring millions of slaves to freedom. Read Kevin Bales' practical and inspiring book and you will discover how our world can be free at last.” -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“I was enslaved at age 11 as part of a human trafficking plot. I know modern slavery from the inside, and since coming to freedom I am committed to end it forever. Every human life has value. People have been sold for far too long and it's time to stop it. This book shows us how to make a world where no more childhoods will be stolen and sold as mine was.” Given Kachepa, former child slave in the United States.
“Ever since the Emancipation Proclamation, Americans have congratulated themselves on ending slavery once and for all. But did we? Kevin Bales is a powerful and effective voice in pointing out the appalling degree to which servitude, forced labor and outright slavery still exist in today's world, even here. This book is a valuable primer on the persistence of these evils, their intricate links to poverty, corruption and globalization--and what we can do to combat them. He's a modern-day William Lloyd Garrison.”
--Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
Here's the other bio. stuff: My book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy published in 1999, was nominated for the
For years I traveled the world meeting people in slavery trying to understand the depth and truth of their lives. What I saw, heard, and learned changed me, and led me deeper into the work of ending slavery, but I was missing something important. Where there are slaves, the environment is under assault, forests are being destroyed, endangered species are dying, and climate change is worsening – and all of this destruction is driven by profits from products we buy.
Children, especially, are suffering: in the fish camps of Bangladesh, in the mines of Eastern Congo feeding the electronics industry, in mercury-saturated gold pits in Ghana, and when brutally used and disposed of by criminals decimating the Amazon forest. And beside the children, endangered species are being wiped out, or pressed to fight back - like the ‘protected' Bengal tigers that prey on child slaves in fishing camps.
After seven years of research and travel we now know that if slavery were a country it would be the third largest producer of CO2 in the world after China and the USA, though its population is only the size of Canada’s. The scale of this joint disaster has been too big to see, until now. Yet, it is precisely the role that slaves play in this ecological catastrophe that opens a new solution, one that unleashes the power of abolition to save and preserve the natural world.
To hear more about Blood and Earth tune in to NPR’s Fresh Air on Tuesday 19 January, and check out an excerpt in Scientific American HERE.
I'm a guy that grew up in Oklahoma thinking if the whole world is as quiet as this place I better cram life to the fullest. The good news: the world is often much more interesting than Oklahoma. I lived a long time in London, and now live in DC. For the last 14 years all my work has been about modern slavery - real slavery, not sweatshops, or bad marriages, or not being able to stop shopping. Back in 1999 I published a book about contemporary slavery that changed my life. It went into 10 languages, got made into a movie, won some prizes, stuff like that. Since then I've published three more books, and three more will come out in 2008.
In Sept 2007 I published a book that is a plan for the eradication of global slavery. It's called Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves. This is what people said about it:
“None of us is truly free while others remain enslaved. The continuing existence of slavery is one of the greatest tragedies facing our global humanity. Today we finally have the means and increasingly the conviction to end this scourge and to bring millions of slaves to freedom. Read Kevin Bales' practical and inspiring book and you will discover how our world can be free at last.” -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
“I was enslaved at age 11 as part of a human trafficking plot. I know modern slavery from the inside, and since coming to freedom I am committed to end it forever. Every human life has value. People have been sold for far too long and it's time to stop it. This book shows us how to make a world where no more childhoods will be stolen and sold as mine was.” Given Kachepa, former child slave in the United States.
“Ever since the Emancipation Proclamation, Americans have congratulated themselves on ending slavery once and for all. But did we? Kevin Bales is a powerful and effective voice in pointing out the appalling degree to which servitude, forced labor and outright slavery still exist in today's world, even here. This book is a valuable primer on the persistence of these evils, their intricate links to poverty, corruption and globalization--and what we can do to combat them. He's a modern-day William Lloyd Garrison.”
--Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
Here's the other bio. stuff: My book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy published in 1999, was nominated for the
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May 20, 2011
Have any of you ever been approached by a deaf mute who’d hand you a card that said they were deaf and in need of some money?
I remember it used to happen all the time when I was in university — every now and again, someone who’d look homeless would wind up wandering through the cafeteria, wordlessly handing out these cards.
I never really used to think anything of it until I read this book, where Bales and Soodalter described a case where a family-run human trafficking ring smuggled in deaf Mexicans over the span of ten years, transporting them to Chicago and New York City where they would be enslaved and forced to work as street peddlers.
“In New York City, fifty-seven of the deaf Mexicans were crammed into small, rundown apartments in two Queens houses and forced to sleep on the floor or on bare mattresses. They were threatened, abused and beaten as a matter of course. Some of the women were systematically raped.” (p.121)
Every single day, these people were given 100 cheap trinkets to sell for a dollar a piece and told not to return until all were sold. Sometimes, they would either walk the streets or stand on corners, staring at the sidewalk or ride on subway cars, eyes cast down, leaving with the riders a small, worn card reading, “I am deaf” and then returning to collect either the trinket or the dollar.
When I read that — I flashed back on every single time that someone had approached me at school, on the street, or on the subway with one of those cards…and for the first time, I actually thought, “That person could have been a slave” — and I just didn’t realize it.
When I read up more about the case online, I came across this article from 1997 where one of the ringleaders actually bragged about how the deaf workers’ earnings had paid for her breasts’ enlargement.
One of the main messages that was continually hammered through the book is the fact that sex slavery is more easily recognizable to us — but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t other types of slavery in existence.
Bales and Soodalter explain, “While deportation might seem preferable to abuse, remember that their families in China and Vietnam were counting on these young women to make good the debts they had taken on and to use their earnings to support their brothers and sisters at home. To return a failure was to betray their families.” (p.132)
They go on to write: “Yes, people come to America with hopes of a better life and find themselves enslaved, but all around the world are people in slavery who, though they will never come to the United States, produce raw material and goods that will.” (p.136)
The cell phones and laptops and other electronic devices that you use, for example, use tantalum, which poor farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo dig up — you know, after they’ve been rounded up by armed gangs and enslaved to do so.
“Every one of us, every day, touches, wears, and eats products tainted with slavery.” (p.137)
It’s hard to avoid — with labor-intensive industries, criminals cut costs and increase profits through slavery.
Just think about all the low prices that can be found in big box stores — places that we flock to because of their hard-to-beat prices. Don’t you ever wonder why they’re able to sell things so cheaply?
Read this book and you’ll know why — and I think it’s important to read a book like this.
I mean, I’ve been asked by a number of friends why I continually read books like these — and normally, I’ll simply say that it’s important to me to remember how, no matter how hard my own life might seem, it’s not…not really. Not compared to what goes on in the world to millions of people who struggle every day.
And you know what? It’s a perspective that we all need to have in order to know definitively what’s right and what’s wrong — and not to simply accept it based on what our parents or our religious leaders have told us. And you know what else? We need to be made aware of what to look out for so that we can act — and that’s where the true test comes in, doesn’t it?
I remember it used to happen all the time when I was in university — every now and again, someone who’d look homeless would wind up wandering through the cafeteria, wordlessly handing out these cards.
I never really used to think anything of it until I read this book, where Bales and Soodalter described a case where a family-run human trafficking ring smuggled in deaf Mexicans over the span of ten years, transporting them to Chicago and New York City where they would be enslaved and forced to work as street peddlers.
“In New York City, fifty-seven of the deaf Mexicans were crammed into small, rundown apartments in two Queens houses and forced to sleep on the floor or on bare mattresses. They were threatened, abused and beaten as a matter of course. Some of the women were systematically raped.” (p.121)
Every single day, these people were given 100 cheap trinkets to sell for a dollar a piece and told not to return until all were sold. Sometimes, they would either walk the streets or stand on corners, staring at the sidewalk or ride on subway cars, eyes cast down, leaving with the riders a small, worn card reading, “I am deaf” and then returning to collect either the trinket or the dollar.
When I read that — I flashed back on every single time that someone had approached me at school, on the street, or on the subway with one of those cards…and for the first time, I actually thought, “That person could have been a slave” — and I just didn’t realize it.
When I read up more about the case online, I came across this article from 1997 where one of the ringleaders actually bragged about how the deaf workers’ earnings had paid for her breasts’ enlargement.
One of the main messages that was continually hammered through the book is the fact that sex slavery is more easily recognizable to us — but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t other types of slavery in existence.
Bales and Soodalter explain, “While deportation might seem preferable to abuse, remember that their families in China and Vietnam were counting on these young women to make good the debts they had taken on and to use their earnings to support their brothers and sisters at home. To return a failure was to betray their families.” (p.132)
They go on to write: “Yes, people come to America with hopes of a better life and find themselves enslaved, but all around the world are people in slavery who, though they will never come to the United States, produce raw material and goods that will.” (p.136)
The cell phones and laptops and other electronic devices that you use, for example, use tantalum, which poor farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo dig up — you know, after they’ve been rounded up by armed gangs and enslaved to do so.
“Every one of us, every day, touches, wears, and eats products tainted with slavery.” (p.137)
It’s hard to avoid — with labor-intensive industries, criminals cut costs and increase profits through slavery.
Just think about all the low prices that can be found in big box stores — places that we flock to because of their hard-to-beat prices. Don’t you ever wonder why they’re able to sell things so cheaply?
Read this book and you’ll know why — and I think it’s important to read a book like this.
I mean, I’ve been asked by a number of friends why I continually read books like these — and normally, I’ll simply say that it’s important to me to remember how, no matter how hard my own life might seem, it’s not…not really. Not compared to what goes on in the world to millions of people who struggle every day.
And you know what? It’s a perspective that we all need to have in order to know definitively what’s right and what’s wrong — and not to simply accept it based on what our parents or our religious leaders have told us. And you know what else? We need to be made aware of what to look out for so that we can act — and that’s where the true test comes in, doesn’t it?
December 1, 2011
Definitely a frustrating book. While I think it is an important book for raising awareness it paints a very narrow picture of human trafficking and the form it takes in the US. I would caution folks to question the validity of some of the authors' claims. (Ask yourself, where did they get those numbers). As someone who works in the area of trafficking and forced labor internationally, I can assure that while the cases the authors present are undoubtedly not fictitious, they are hardly representative. Furthermore, they use terminology such as slavery, forced labor, bonded-labor, and trafficking interchangeably. This is highly problematic and I would encourage the reader to explore their use of the term slave. Again, I do think this is an important read as it demonstrates that human trafficking, forced labor, bonded-labor, child labor, etc are not just issues in far away lands. They happen right here in the US.
January 21, 2020
This book is about slavery and human trafficking in the United States. Conventional wisdom is that slavery is over (it's not) and that human trafficking is the same as sex trafficking (it's not.) Labor trafficking, particularly in agricultural work, and domestic servant trafficking are prevalent although they can be much harder to detect.
This book has important and well-written information, but it's not for everyone. The writing and depth of analysis is likely to succeed best with those who are already in the field as activists or professionals. It will also work with policy wonks like me, but it's not for the mass market. I don't think it's dry, but it's not a fast and enjoyable read. That doesn't take anything away from its worth. This book goes into depth regarding not just the actual crimes, but the divisions within nonprofits who work on these issues, between nonprofits and the government, and even within government divisions themselves. Our structure for dealing with this growing issue seems pretty chaotic.
It's hard to get past the first horrifying story of a 12-year-old labor victim, but, if you do, you'll know more about these messed up issues than about 90+ percent of the US.
This book has important and well-written information, but it's not for everyone. The writing and depth of analysis is likely to succeed best with those who are already in the field as activists or professionals. It will also work with policy wonks like me, but it's not for the mass market. I don't think it's dry, but it's not a fast and enjoyable read. That doesn't take anything away from its worth. This book goes into depth regarding not just the actual crimes, but the divisions within nonprofits who work on these issues, between nonprofits and the government, and even within government divisions themselves. Our structure for dealing with this growing issue seems pretty chaotic.
It's hard to get past the first horrifying story of a 12-year-old labor victim, but, if you do, you'll know more about these messed up issues than about 90+ percent of the US.
March 22, 2021
I wanted to maybe rate this higher, but this book was honestly very difficult to read. However, this rating is not a knock on how valuable of information Bales provides.
The content is heavy but very informative.
This book, in conjunction with the Human Trafficking course I took at TCU, is a big part of the reason I have any interest at all in trafficking.
The content is heavy but very informative.
This book, in conjunction with the Human Trafficking course I took at TCU, is a big part of the reason I have any interest at all in trafficking.
April 12, 2013
Modern slavery and human trafficking are subjects that are near and dear to my heart. Author Kevin Bales is the head of the anti-slavery organization "Free the Slaves," so this book was a natural to go in my reading queue. The information cuts you right to the bone, but the writing is difficult to stay with. Bales is many things, but a writer he is not. You might do just as well to go to the Free the Slaves website and get the information dry.
April 9, 2010
So I read this for my paper on human trafficking. Definitely not something I would pick up for pleasure because let's face it, human trafficking is depressing. This book was very well done. Informative. Interesting. Horrific at times, but everyone needs to know the reality of slavery in America today.
January 14, 2021
I am truly at a loss as to how to review this book. It’s important, it’s necessary, and it was painful to read. It is written well, and there is plenty of research backing up the claims in the book. I have started looking at some things on Google and YouTube, mostly to overcome my need to crawl into a shell like a turtle and refused to believe what I was reading. That didn’t work because I found a lot of people describing similar things, people whose opinion I trust and have trusted over a period of years. For my entire life, slavery was some thing that happened in another time or in other places, or maybe even in a fantasy book of some kind. It was not a real thing, and it was definitely not in my country or my city.
It doesn’t make sense to read a book like this unless you are prepared to change your mind and change your heart. It also doesn’t make sense to read this book unless you allow this knowledge to change some of your actions or even create some new ones. The last chapter of the book discusses how ordinary people can help if they discover that someone is being used as a slave or is caught up in some type of human trafficking. For now, I am praying for them, and I am considering my next steps. I rarely go out right now because of health issues, so I am unlikely to meet someone who is in trouble myself. However, I can donate my time and talent to groups that work to help people get out of slavery. I’m still thinking about the best way to go at this point.
I hope you will take the time to read this book. Yes, the topic is quite uncomfortable, and that’s why it’s so important to understand. We are all created in gods image, and we all have worth, even an undocumented Asian guy who is doing dishes in a Chinese restaurant. We fought a war to end slavery, and we will have to fight another one, a social and political one, to put an end to slavery now.
It doesn’t make sense to read a book like this unless you are prepared to change your mind and change your heart. It also doesn’t make sense to read this book unless you allow this knowledge to change some of your actions or even create some new ones. The last chapter of the book discusses how ordinary people can help if they discover that someone is being used as a slave or is caught up in some type of human trafficking. For now, I am praying for them, and I am considering my next steps. I rarely go out right now because of health issues, so I am unlikely to meet someone who is in trouble myself. However, I can donate my time and talent to groups that work to help people get out of slavery. I’m still thinking about the best way to go at this point.
I hope you will take the time to read this book. Yes, the topic is quite uncomfortable, and that’s why it’s so important to understand. We are all created in gods image, and we all have worth, even an undocumented Asian guy who is doing dishes in a Chinese restaurant. We fought a war to end slavery, and we will have to fight another one, a social and political one, to put an end to slavery now.
September 14, 2019
Opens one’s eyes, wide. To read this book is to see the world around you in a vastly different way. A recounting of daily human suffering. Not an easy subject to think on but so necessary. Reading this was akin to a new beginning , a little seed of potential, the possibility of helping to create desperately needed change. It’s a dark place, but we can all be a part of putting out shoots to slowly feel their way towards some light.
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February 5, 2025read this book for school - it was actually really interesting and insightful on modern day slavery
February 24, 2017
This book took me a long time to read for several reasons. The material is often emotionally difficult, the writing is very dense, and it's very dry. It did a good job of making the case that human trafficking is about a lot more than sex trafficking. The cases of labor trafficking are every bit as heart breaking. It was eye-opening and jarring to learn of two cases of agricultural slavery that occurred within 15 miles of my house. There is a lot of good information in the book and at the end, the authors list ways you can help.
May 28, 2013
In this autobiography Theresa is pulled into human sexual trafficking shortly before her sixteenth birthday. A boy she trusts invites her to his house where he rapes her. His cousins are there, and they photograph it all. Theresa is told she can “earn” the pictures back, and if she doesn’t, copies will be sent to her family, her father’s boss, and will be spread around the high school. The more she tries to earn them back, the deeper she descends into an indescribable hell. She is regularly put in a room naked. Outside the room men are having a party, and as part of the party they are allowed to go into the bedroom to do whatever they please with her. Unfortunately, their culture devalues women, so what pleases them is degrading, painful, and physically and emotionally damaging. The parties last anywhere from two to four hours, during which time the abuse is nearly constant. She finally gets out after two years. I am not a real death penalty advocate, but creeps that would do something like this have no business occupying space in this world. I might have a problem sending Jodi Arias to the death chamber, but I would send these guys there in a second.
July 9, 2012
This book had some heartbreaking stories and I learned more about human trafficking, but this book had some serious organization flaws. It seemed to jump from place to place in a seeming random order and contained way too much specialized information for the average reader, such as lists of the various NGOs currently working to stop human trafficking and their specific strengths and flaws. I think it could be condensed into an essay and would be much more effective at making the general population aware of and concerned about human trafficking in the United States.
August 16, 2011
Excellent book! Covers all aspects of modern-day slavery issues - physical labor, nannies, restaurant workers, foreign sweatshops, housekeepers, sex slaves, etc. Gives hotline info, police training recommendations & law enforcement, government agencies' involvement, as well as instructing the average citizen regarding what to watch for and how to become involved in our own neighborhoods and communities. This is an eye-opening expose on this subject and I highly recommend it!
February 28, 2011
if you want a true look at human trafficking and want the cold hard truth...read this book. I had the pleasure of meeting Kevin Bales at Washburn University a couple years ago. Let me tell you, fellow readers...he is AMAZING!! READ ALL OF HIS BOOKS!!
April 25, 2012
I tried to read this book as it is on our current reading list for our church women's group. It is heavily in to statistics and agencies and I gave up after about 15 pages and skimming through the remainder to see if it was any different.
November 30, 2013
This is one from the United Methodist Women's reading list. Not an easy read but great info and lots to think about - including whether or not to shop in certain stores and things we see and might not notice!
January 2, 2011
This is one of the best overviews to human trafficking that I have encountered--well written, compassionate, informative, and readable. I wish I could give a copy to every single person I know.
May 4, 2017
What an eye-opening book! And if you think that this is not happening in your neighborhood, think again!
April 2, 2023
I'm not sure what to say for this review. It's hard to put down a book that does a good job of educating people on the issues of Trafficking and Slavery. But this is where part of the issue was for me. I relate more to the stories and information within them as opposed to long diatribes of government and different factions trying to help. That being said some of that was informative and educational as well.
The frustrating part is Trafficking isn't always taken seriously and it pisses me off that Government agencies fight about what and how much to do and as seems to be societies way, ignore the victim and their needs and trauma and focus on the perpetrator and the numbers that the Government can display on spreadsheets on what a great job they are doing.
So, all in all this is a good, informative book and if you are interested then this is a decent book to read and get educated on. There are suggestions in the back on different areas to get involved with to help support victims, so if anyone feels called then there are ways to become involved and to help.
The frustrating part is Trafficking isn't always taken seriously and it pisses me off that Government agencies fight about what and how much to do and as seems to be societies way, ignore the victim and their needs and trauma and focus on the perpetrator and the numbers that the Government can display on spreadsheets on what a great job they are doing.
So, all in all this is a good, informative book and if you are interested then this is a decent book to read and get educated on. There are suggestions in the back on different areas to get involved with to help support victims, so if anyone feels called then there are ways to become involved and to help.
August 22, 2019
I've mostly read books about sex trafficking, so I am not as familiar with other forms of human trafficking. I found this book to be helpful in learning about a broader scope as well as some understanding of the different government agencies and their role in fighting human trafficking. I found the flow of the book hard to follow and the examples, while heartbreaking, were often the extreme cases and not necessarily representative of the issues as a whole. Also, this book is over 10 years old, which at this point means that a lot has changed, so it was hard to know what was still accurate.
December 11, 2019
A lot of information, reads a little too much like a textbook for me to feel comfortable recommending it to "casual" readers who want info on trafficking.
Plus, already so much outdated information, which is (obviously) the problem with current affairs and linear time.
Plus, already so much outdated information, which is (obviously) the problem with current affairs and linear time.
February 2, 2020
The book feels a little disjointed as you jump from one story to the next. There is a lot of great information (a bit outdated now) but if you are interested in learning more about human trafficking, especially in the U.S., this is a great place to start.
July 4, 2022
This book is very interesting. The first part has a lot of true scenarios and is easy to follow; while the second half seems to cover more statistics, facts and ways to help.
It really does open your eyes to different perspectives on Slavery.
It really does open your eyes to different perspectives on Slavery.
August 19, 2017
Man's inhumanity to man & woman still shocks me. How can this be? But it is, here right now today, here in "River City".
October 4, 2019
I skimmed this as it was a bit too "text-bookish" for me
November 7, 2019
Not great doesn’t capture you and better books out there worth spending your time on
April 26, 2020
Difficult topic but important to be knowledgable about this atrocity happening all around us.
February 3, 2022
helpful and important. i should find a new, up-to-date book like this.
January 19, 2025
Read for school - actually really interesting
January 29, 2025
Rich with condensed textbook knowledge, this book will challenge your worldview and make you double question everything you once thought were true in regard to U.S economic and foreign affairs policy- and as a result, come to terms with the brutal reality in comparison. There are more slaves today than they were during the slave trade era. The supposed “land of the free” is one of the biggest offenders of modern day slavery, while- you can call it negligence, definitely not ignorance, but a firm handshake and pat on the back for capital gain and furthering the capitalist agenda. Top to bottom- there are blatant power games at play. The question now is: what now?
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