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The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today by Kevin Bales, Ron Soodalter
enchantingreads's review
This book made me too sad. This book was breaking my heart into a ton of pieces.
davehershey's review
4.0
This book differs from other books about modern day slavery in that it focuses solely on America. In reading other books one could almost get the impression that human trafficking is an issue far away and disconnected from us here in the US. Of course, the books I have seen do speak of the slave trade's affect on the US for a chapter or two. But here the central focus is on slavery in America. For that reason, I highly recommend this book. Anyone American who reads this book will be confronted with slavery in their own life. No longer can we be separated from it because it is in India or Brazil. It is here.
This book dives deeply into what the US government is, or is not, doing to end human trafficking. The authors are quite critical of the government at times. They also show some of the conflict in the movement against human trafficking between those who want to focus only on forced prostitution (or prostitution in general) and those who want to keep a wider focus (including forced labor, domestic servitude, etc.).
The authors' message is hopeful. They share many success stories and provide practical resources and actions any person can do to be an abolitionist.
This book dives deeply into what the US government is, or is not, doing to end human trafficking. The authors are quite critical of the government at times. They also show some of the conflict in the movement against human trafficking between those who want to focus only on forced prostitution (or prostitution in general) and those who want to keep a wider focus (including forced labor, domestic servitude, etc.).
The authors' message is hopeful. They share many success stories and provide practical resources and actions any person can do to be an abolitionist.
tandra_g's review
5.0
I read this for background information on a novel I'm currently working on. It was both heartbreaking and insightful, and jam-packed with information. It also included a piece on trafficking that has and continues to occur just down the road from me, in the Immokalee, Florida area, so it really hit home. I didn't really touch on pornography's role in trafficking, which my novel does, but it was still very useful. A good look at a problem we thought we solved almost two centuries ago.
bekki_f's review
4.0
I am glad I read disposable people first. That is a superior book to this one, but we need to be aware of how bad the situation in the U.S. is.
stormy's review
3.0
It's good, talks of different types of trafficking - for farm-labor, prostitution, even choir-singing of boys. Too bad it's so US-centric (other places are mentioned too, but it's mostly US).
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