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A Crime So Monstrous: A Shocking Exposé of Modern-Day Sex Slavery, Human Trafficking and Urban Child Markets: A Shocking Expose of Modern-day Sex Slavery, Human Trafficking and Urban Child Markets [Paperback]

E. Benjamin Skinner (Author)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Mainstream Publishing (6 Mar 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1845963466
  • ISBN-13: 978-1845963460
  • Product Dimensions: 15.5 x 2.8 x 23.4 cm
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An author infiltrates worldwide trafficking networks and discloses revelatory evidence of today's human slave trade

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Two hundred years after Parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, over 27 million people worldwide languish in slavery, forced to work, under threat of violence, for no pay. In Africa, hundreds of thousands are considered chattel, while on the Indian subcontinent millions languish in generational debt bondage. Across the globe, women and children, sold for sex and labour, are already the second most lucrative commodity for organised crime.

Through eviscerating narrative, A Crime So Monstrous paints a stark picture of modern slavery. Skinner infiltrates trafficking networks and slave sales on four continents, exposing a flesh trade never before portrayed with such vivid detail. From mega-harems in Khartoum to illicit brothels in Bucharest, from slave quarries in India to urban child markets in Haiti, he lays bare a parallel universe where lives are bought, sold, used and discarded.

The personal stories related here are heartbreaking but in the midst of tragedy Skinner also discovered a quiet dignity that leads some to resist and aspire to freedom. He bears witness for them and for the millions that are held in the shadows - all victims of what is the greatest human-rights challenge facing our generation.

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Well written 21 May 2012
By Sm Drew
Format:Paperback
Part travelogue, part political and economic history, part journalistic investigation, this book is a shocking and moving introduction to a relatively unreported subject. In its readable pages we hear from the slaves themselves- from Haiti, Amsterdam, India etc as they tell their stories, each one put in its cultural and sociological context by Skinner. Intermingled with this is an examination of the reactions and sanctions from other countries and those appointed to deal with the issue (which in general is generally lots of hot air and no action).

I found the history and political sections quite dense and full of information and I did have to slow down and make sure I was taking it all in, especially the names of the various important players, but the other parts were almost too easy to read, putting in the bluntest terms the horrors of modern day slavery.

This was an excellent book that sums up the situation clearly and concisely and left me feeling angry, shocked and terribly terribly sad.
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Compulsory reading 18 April 2009
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What a compelling and disturbing read. It should be compulsory reading for every politician or wannabe politician in every country of the world.
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Human Trafficking 4 Aug 2009
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Too much American Politics alongside cases in this book for my liking. Started, stopped, started, stopped...... Still not finished as other books are easier to read with case stories without the politics.
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