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In Detroit alone, nineteen children, according to the FBI, have been rescued from human slavery…and a dozen pimps arrested…
It was all part of a nationwide sting last week that involved children, some as young as 12-years-old. FBI Director, James Comey: “When kids are treated as a commodity in seedy hotels and on dark roadsides, we must rescue them from their nightmare and severely punish those responsible for that horror.”
Most people think slavery is a practice that ended with abolition laws. Yet, as Jasmin Gallardo shares, abolition laws focused on ending legal ownership, not on dismantling the economic structures that depended on exploitation. That gap created space for forced labor to reemerge in forms that were technically legal, harder to see, and easier to defend. The systems that drove slavery were never dismantled In many places, formerly enslaved people were
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