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We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods

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Kevin Bales
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 9
Author
Sociologist
University Teacher
Kevin Brian Bales
Slavery
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Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about
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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.
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