Forced Labor and Human Trafficking: Historical and Modern Day Slavery Book

Spanning many meanings over centuries of human history, slavery is the holding of a human being against their will and treatment as property.

This book explores historical slavery, serfdom and slavery during the middle ages, and both slavery and abolitionism in the United States. Also discussed are the modern forms of slavery including child slavery, human trafficking, and debt bondage.

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