The movie “12 Years a Slave” is receiving rapturous reviews for depicting the antebellum South less as a gauzy land of elegant plantations than as the raw backdrop of monstrous brutality.
It’s terrific that, in the 21st century, we can squarely face 19th-century slavery. But let’s also acknowledge the modern versions of slavery in the world around us — and, yes, right here at home.
Continue with Nicholas Kristof's article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/opinion/slavery-isnt-a-thing-of-the-past.html?emc=edit_tnt_20131106&tntemail0=y
It’s terrific that, in the 21st century, we can squarely face 19th-century slavery. But let’s also acknowledge the modern versions of slavery in the world around us — and, yes, right here at home.
Continue with Nicholas Kristof's article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/opinion/slavery-isnt-a-thing-of-the-past.html?emc=edit_tnt_20131106&tntemail0=y
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