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Congress designates National Day for Human Trafficking Awareness to draw attention to modern day slavery in U.S. & around the world
(Plain Press, January 2010, Holly K. Gigante and Karen Walsh) When we hear the word “slavery,” many of us think of history—Abraham Lincoln, the Civil Rights struggles, maybe the use of prisoners of war forced into slavery in Vietnam, Russia, Japan or elsewhere. Slavery is a ruthless treatment of human beings — degradation, a holocaust…