Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.
It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a sl… - Kevin Bales
It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a sl…
- Kevin Bales
Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Mo… - Kevin Bales
Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Mo…
For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their pl… - Kevin Bales
For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their pl…
Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne. - Kevin Bales
Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.
It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves. - Kevin Bales
It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.
Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them … - Kevin Bales
Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them …
There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's slave… - Kevin Bales
There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's slave…
We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods - Kevin Bales
We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods
Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an econom… - Kevin Bales
Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an econom…
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