Jen’s Reviews > Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade—and How We Can Fight It > Status Update

I should not be reading this book in public. Trying SO hard not to cry right now. What people can do to others is disgusting and brutal. The poor victims of human trafficking.

“Indeed, more slaves are in bondage today than were bartered in four centuries of the transatlantic slave trade. Nowhere has its impact been felt more brutally than on children in the underdeveloped nations. Slaveholders prey on the defenseless, and children so easily become vulnerable.”

“Nearly two hundred thousand people live enslaved at this moment in the United States, and an additional 17,500 new victims are trafficked across our borders each year.” From a three year study published in September 2001. Again, I’m sure those numbers have grown.

January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. As such, I will try to read one book about the topic to keep those suffering from it in my thought and prayers and to keep my eyes open. It can be anywhere.