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Free the Slaves staff Jacob Patton, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, and Peggy Callahan will be blogging here to keep track of what we know about trafficking and US contractors in Iraq and how the warslavery.org campaign is going.
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by Jacob on August 02, 2006
War and slavery have gone hand-in-hand throughout human history. The first written histories recount wars of conquest, the enslavement of defeated enemies, forcing the men into hard labor and the women into domestic service and sex slavery. Often, these slaves were used to fight in the conquerors’ next war, building their empire and abducting more slaves. The Roman Empire, for example, ran on slaves the way America runs on oil today.
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by Austin on August 23, 2006
Maybe you’re asking yourself why nobody’s being prosecuted for trafficking in Iraq. Actually we’ve been asking ourselves a few questions as well. Sometimes the answers are surprising.
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