Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

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 population is greater than the population of Canada, and six times greater than the population of Israel.

We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.

If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.

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 place and some assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine their lives outside the frame of enslavement.

Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.