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Siddharth Kara

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Knoxville, TN, The United States

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Siddharth Kara is an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery. Kara has written several books and reports on slavery and child labor, including the New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Cobalt Red. Kara also won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. He has lectured at Harvard University and held a professorship at the University of Nottingham. He divides his time between Los Angeles and London.

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Average rating: 4.35 · 17,463 ratings · 3,122 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives 4.36 avg rating — 15,502 ratings — published 2023 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery 4.24 avg rating — 1,027 ratings — published 2008 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery 4.27 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 2025 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective 4.41 avg rating — 137 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia 4.35 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Side: Sex in Global Affairs by Dennis Altman, World Politics Review, Siddharth Kara 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Our daily lives are powered by a human and environmental catastrophe in the Congo.”
― Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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“Now you understand how people like us work?”
“I believe so.”
“Tell me.”
“You work in horrible conditions and—”
“No! We work in our graves.”
― Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

tags: catastrophe, death, exploitation, grave, human-trafficking, humanity, slavery

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“ The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. —Franklin D. Roosevelt, second inaugural address, 1937”
― Siddharth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

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