Free the Slaves

I stumbled upon this organization Free the Slaves. It is a non profit organization, founded by Dr. Kevin Bales whose focus is to free slaves all over the world and help them rebuild their lives as freed people. Free the slaves uses research in hopes of finding a way to rid the world of slavery. They get true life stories from people they have helped free. Not only do they free worker slaves, the free women and children in the sex slave trade as well.



Dr. Kevin Bales actually wrote a book titled Understanding Global Slavery. In this book Dr. Bales talks about slavery and how it effects our boarders as well as how it can be ended.
"He explores our basic ideas about what slavery is and how the phenomenon fits into our moral, political, and economic worlds. He seeks to explain how human trafficking brings people into our cities and how the demand for trafficked workers, servants, and prostitutes shapes modern slavery. And he asks how we can study and measure this mostly hidden crime..." cited



The website is very insightful and gives a lot of information. It also has stories from former slaves, where you can help make a difference, stories from researchers and people who are in the "frontlines' and just a lot of interesting information.

As a sociologist, this would definitely be something that could be touched upon and researched further.