Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves
by Kevin Bales
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Author: Kevin BalesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-12-10
ISBN: 0520257960
Number of pages: 274
Publisher: University of California Press
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"You powerful ones are unconcerned about your slaves; because of your position you lose touch with your brothers." Mozart
"In 1865 slaves were freed in the United States and dumped into the economy without access to credit, education or political participation...what was done virtually guaranteed their long-term second -class citizenship...just like the American emancipation of 1865 the abolition of slavery in Nepal in 2000 was botched"
In the beginning the author did not believe there was a global problem with trafficking, however his own birds eye experience shown to him by the very people in the field, has convinced him that slave trafficking was, is and maybe always has been a problem.
Unknowingly or knowingly the author has shown the modern anti-slave campaign that was started in England then on to the U.S., during the early centuries, while successful in those country's was ultimately, transferred to other geopolitical areas then hidden, protected or disguised as something else, then brought back at least to the U.S.
Starting in 1926 the Slavery Convention sponsored by the League of Nations, England sought to protect slavery in their Colonies and the U. S. excluded forced labor for private purposes, to protect Southern states that were still practicing slavery. India currently has the largest amount of slaves, however the slavery system set up in Japan was surprising. Brazil has the best systems/laws/ in place to fight their country's trafficking.
The author offers a variety of real manageable strategies for ending slavery including compensation for the groups that were wronged, psychological evaluations, health care, jail time and confiscation of property as remedies and deterrents. Including a viable plan to get the United Nations, World Trade Organization, UNICEF, International Criminal Court and World Bank more involved in the antislavery fight.
What is needed now is long term support for those in the field who are actively engaged in the abolition of slaves.
Summary of Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves
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 wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists. In Ending Slavery, Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this ancient evil and presents the ideas and insights that can finally lead to slavery's extinction. Recalling his own involvement in the antislavery movement, he recounts a personal journey in search of the solution and explains how governments and citizens can build a world without slavery.Economics Books
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