There Are Now More Slaves Than at Any Point in Human History
August 28, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay
up to date with the latest headlines via email. “My very first
survivor was a boy. How many of us are looking for boys?”
--Sandra Morgan, Director, Global Center for Women & Justice at
Vanguard University His legs were thin as faded whispers and
dangled like twisted ropes from his wheelchair, and his walk was
a drag as he pulled himself along with worn-out school erasers
clutched in each hand. Nadu was born this way and despite being
13 years old, he had just received his first wheelchair the day
prior to my arrival. He hadn’t needed one for the past seven
years. When he was five his family bent to the weight of
foresight, tradition and circumstance. They sold him. For seven
years Nadu was stored like luggage in the back of a nondescript
van and was taken from community to community for the sole
purpose of being raped by anybody willing to pay enough to cover
the driver’s fuel and food e