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

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

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

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

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them …

- 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…

- Kevin Bales

We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods

- 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…

- Kevin Bales

It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.

- Kevin Bales