Author: Bales, Kevin

Bales is president of Free the Slaves, the U.S. sister organization of Britain's Anti-Slavery International. In his 1999 book Disposable People, he brought to light the shocking fact that nearly 200 years after the slave trade was abolished and 150 years after slavery itself became illegal, global slavery stubbornly persists. Now he describes the struggle to end this ancient evil in the 21st century, recounts his own personal involvement in the antislavery movement, and presents his ideas for accomplishing slavery's extinction at long last. Now in paper. 274 pp.