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The authors rely on archival photographs and illustrations and engaging personal stories to provide a comprehensive history of slavery. The twelve chapters make it clear that slavery may have been abolished by law in many countries, but in practice, it continues across the globe. Beginning in ancient Egypt as well as the practices of the Greeks and Romans and concluding with current practices of enslaving women and children in the carpet industry or as sex slaves and farm workers, the book is ma
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