The New Global Slave Trade [Foreign Affairs]
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11/16/2006 From the article: When most people think about slavery--if they think about it at all--they probably assume that it was eliminated during the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. Slavery and the global slave trade continue to thrive to this day; in fact, it is likely that more people are being trafficked across borders against their will now than at any point in the past.
Reprinted by permission of FOREIGN AFFAIRS, (November/December 2006). Copyright 2006 by the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. Acess the full article (pdf)
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