Slavery: A Global Investigation.
Slavery is officially banned internationally by all countries, yet despite this there are more slaves , in the world today than ever before. In the four hundred years of the legal slave trade around 13 million people were shipped from Africa. Today there are an estimated 27 million slaves - people paid no money, locked away and controlled by violence. Multi-Award winning documentary makers Kate Blewett and Brian Woods - who produced the groundbreaking films The Dying Rooms, Innocents Lost and Eyes of a Child, saw this terrible exploitation with their own eyes. The result is an utterly devastating film.
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Hi, Thanks for a great post. I worked with Brian and Kate to make Slavery: A Global Investigation, it was based on my book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. I never dreamed that as a college teacher I would ever get an Emmy, but we got two for this film, plus the Peabody Award.
I think you might be interested in some of the outcomes of that film, such as the development of a new system for taking slavery out of cocoa and chocolate. You can learn more about this, and about how and why we can bring modern slavery to an end in my new book Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves.
It's in book shops and Amazon etc., but cheapest (and with a lot more information including DVDs copies of Slavery: A Global Investigation) at www.freetheslaves.net.
All best
Kevin Bales
Kevin,
I'll be buying the book! Thanks for the great work you did to highlight this atrocity..
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