Benjamin Skinner: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery

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Worldwide, there are more slaves today than ever before, and as the first person in recorded history to witness negotiations for the sales of human beings on four continents, journalist Ben Skinner has gone inside the modern slave trade like no one else. In his first book, A Crime So Monstrous, Skinner weaves a vivid narrative of slaves, traffickers, survivors and liberators. With years of reporting in such places as Haiti, Sudan, India, Eastern Europe, and The Netherlands, he has produced a vivid testament and moving reportage on one of the great evils of our time. During his visit to Zócalo, Skinner discussed how he managed to convince a slave trader to talk about his work on the record, including the actual process of negotiating the price of a human being. (This event was sponsored, in part, by The California Wellness Foundation.)

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[kharnvelzyghur]

ladies and gentlemen i give you bsummer100 - the idiot.

[bamatommy]

Thank you for posting this video.  I just ordered this man's book tonight.

I also recommend "The Natashas" by Victor Malarek, "Enslaved" by Jesse Sage (and others), and "Not for Sale" by David Batstone.

[NPRCVI]

President Bush took direct aim at this abominable trade in his address to the United Nations General Assembly, he said, Theres a special evil in the abuse and exploitation of the most innocent and vulnerable. The victimssee little of life before they see the very worst of life -- an underground of brutality and lonely fear. Those who create these victims and profit from their suffering must be severely punishedand governments that tolerate this trade are tolerating a form of slavery.