Slavery

(Update 2: Thanks to Lenise of Paxifist for finding the link that I had lost. Apologies to CEP of What A Rummy Nation...)

The slave trade didn't disappear with the Civil War.

It's big business. Conservative estimates now place about 21 million worldwide in slavery, their labor unrecompensed and fuel for the drug and arms trade, among other grave social ills...

The primary goal right now is simple publicity--informing Americans that slavery does exist, in a virulent and cruel form--crueler, really, than anytime before in history, as many of these people are victims not only of physical abuse, but of sexual and psychological maltreatment that exceeds all preceding examples...

This is an evil that we free people should not ignore--we cannot leave these fatherless, these "widows"... to the mercy of those who exploit them.