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How One of Today's 'Bad Guys' Ended the Scourge of Slavery

  • by Melvin Rhodes
Two hundred years ago, Great Britain became the first major nation to abolish the slave trade. By the end of the century slavery had been abolished around the world. Here is the remarkable story of the abolition of the slave trade—and of its tragic return to plague the world.

World News and Trends: European sex-slave traffic increases

  • by John Ross Schroeder, Melvin Rhodes
Some young women in Eastern European nations, desperate for a better way of life through well-paying jobs, are tricked, then threatened and abducted and finally bought and sold like so much livestock.