Modern Slavery A Beginner's Guide

by Bales, Kevin; Trodd, Zoe; Kent Williamson, Alex

• ISBN13: 9781851688159
• ISBN10: 1851688153
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-01
• Publisher: Ingram Book Co

Summary

A Beginner's Guide blends original research with shocking first-hand accounts from slaves themselves around the world to reveal the truth behind one of the worst humanitarian crises facing us today. Only a handful of slaves are reached and freed each year, but the authors offer hope for the future with a global blueprint that proposes to end slavery in our lifetime All royalties will go to Free the Slaves

Author Biography

Kevin Bales is President of Free the Slaves and advisor to the UN and the US and British governments. Zoe Trodd teaches at the Department of English and the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University. Alex Kent Williamson of Harvard University is a pathologist and a member of Physicians for Human Rights.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Illustrations	p. x
Perpetual chains: slavery throughout history and today	p. 1
By yet another name: definitions and forms of modern slavery	p. 26
A money-making system: modern slavery and the global economy	p. 47
Their own sufferings: modern slavery for women and girls	p. 65
Of one blood: racial, ethnic, and religious aspects of modern slavery	p. 91
Subjugated soldiers, terrorized terrain: armed conflict and environmental destruction as factors in modem slavery	p. 107
The suffering of multitudes: modern slavery's health risks and consequences	p. 124
To effect its abolition: ending slavery in our lifetimes	p. 145
Notes	p. 168
Further reading	p. 189
Glossary	p. 191
timeline	p. 194
anti-slavery legislation	p. 199
anti-slavery organizations	p. 212
Index	p. 214
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