Last week London police rescued three women who had been held as slaves, possibly for as long as thirty years.
Earlier in September, Ariel Castro, who had been sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, raping and imprisoning three women, committed suicide in a prison in America.
Slavery, however isn’t always the stuff of extreme and dramatic headlines. Sometimes it is terribly banal.
Goldenroom’s timely article on slavery and human trafficking will have you thinking about what you buy.
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