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<p>It is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century. While slavery in the Americas officially ended in 1888, millions of slaves remained in bondage across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East well into the first half of the twentieth century. Wherever laws against slavery were introduced, governments found ways of continuing similar forms of coercion and exploitation, such as forced, bonded, and indentured labor. Every country in the world has now abolished slavery, yet millions of people continue to find themselves subject to contemporary forms of slavery, such as human trafficking, wartime enslavement, and the worst forms of child labor. <i>The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking</i> offers an innovative study in the attempt to understand and eradicate these ongoing human rights abuses.<br><br>In <i>The Anti-Slavery Project</i>, historian and human rights expert Joel Quirk examines the evolution of political opposition to slavery from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the abolitionist movement in the British Empire, Quirk analyzes the philosophical, economic, and cultural shifts that eventually resul

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Author

Joel Quirk

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812223248

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, History