Slavery In Depth

Slavery in Depth

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.

War and Genocide in Sudan
By Sabit A. Alley
Modern day slavery and slave trade have gone on in Sudan since the 18th and 19th centuries. They have only varied in intensity depending on who holds the reigns of power in Khartoum.