Essays on Modern Slavery

Human Trafficking and Slavery
By David Masci of CQ Press
Are the world's nations doing enough to stamp out slavery?

Guarding America's First Right: Freedom From Bondage
By Jesse Sage
An examination of contemporary slavery in America from a civil-rights perspective.

Slavery: Worldwide Evil
By Charles Jacobs
Most people believe slavery no longer exists, but it is still very much alive. From Khartoum to Calcutta, from Brazil to Bangladesh, men, women, and children live and work as slaves or in slave-like conditions

Trafficking: Slaves on the Move
The State Department reports that, "over the past year, at least 700,000, and possibly as many as four million men women and children worldwide were bought, sold, transported and held against their will in slave-like conditions".

Pulling the Rug Out From Under Us
By Swathi Mehta
India, the world’s largest democracy, is also home to more slaves than all the other countries of the world combined.

Contemporary Child Slavery in Mauritania
By Libbie Snyder
For the past 800 years, child slaves in Mauritania have been as invisible in their own community as the country’s institution of slavery has been to international eyes. In Mauritania today, an estimated one million of the population live as slaves and approximately half of slaves are children.