I’ve been teaching, talking, and tweeting about this for years, but it’s worth repeating: the ongoing existence of real slavery in the world, today, doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Slavery (in various forms) is not just in the past. It should concern us all. 
A very fine and troubling book about this is “What Slaveholders Think” by @achoifitz books.google.com/books/about/Wh…
On the forms of modern slavery around the world, see “Modern Slavery” by @siddharthkara cup.columbia.edu/book/modern-sl…
Chattel slavery persists in Mauritania, TODAY. But it’s so little discussed
In a rare insight into the lives of the tens of thousands of people affected, photojournalist @SeifKousmate spent a month photographing and interviewing current and former slaves. theguardian.com/global-develop…
In a rare insight into the lives of the tens of thousands of people affected, photojournalist @SeifKousmate spent a month photographing and interviewing current and former slaves. theguardian.com/global-develop…
"there are more slaves in world today than in 19th C. Yet because one’s political rivals cannot be delegitimized by being on wrong side of slavery, few care to be active abolitionists, compared to being, say, speech police." - John Tooby @edge edge.org/conversation/j… via @robsica
And this is work by @lisakristine Lets not stop with discussing slavery in our past, from 150 years ago. Let’s consider what we can do about its presence today. Otherwise, we are utterly intellectually inconsistent.
And let’s not forget the recent mass enslavement of Yezidi women and girls, by the many thousands, while the world watched. theguardian.com/world/2017/jul… @YESforYezidis @Free_Yezidi
