• ISBN13: 9781403973245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Law and Criminology
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac
• Publication Date: August 6, 2007
• Pages: 240
• Original Price: 22.99 GBP
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams

About the Book Today, millions of people are being held in slavery around the world. From poverty-stricken countries to affluent American suburbs, slaves toil as sweatshop workers, sex slaves, migrant workers, and domestic servants. With exposes by seven former slaves--as well as one slaveholder--from Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, this groundbreaking collection of harrowing first-hand accounts reveals how slavery continues to thrive in the twenty-first century. From the memoirs of Micheline, a Haitian girl coerced into domestic work in Connecticut, to the confessions of Abdel Nasser, a Mauritanian master turned abolitionist, these stories heighten awareness of a global human rights crisis that can no longer be ignored."