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Disposable People

Publication Date: April 23, 2012 | ISBN-10: 0520272919 | ISBN-13: 978-0520272910 | Edition: Third Edition,Revised Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history’s oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales’s disturbing…

Ending Slavery

Publication Date: December 10, 2008 In his 1999 book, Disposable People, Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to…

150 Years Ago, Abraham Lincoln Freed the Slaves