Obchod s lidmi - Skutečné příběhy záchrany otroků – Ballard Tim (2023)

According to this book, the film Sound of Freedom was made. Today, approximately twenty to thirty million people are enslaved. Nearly six million of these modern-day slaves are children. Human trafficking is estimated to generate $150 billion annually and is the fastest-growing criminal enterprise on the planet. Given that currently thousands of children in the United States are forced into commercial sexual exploitation and thousands more are trafficked into the U.S. for the same purpose each year, this problem is not far away. It is everywhere. ***** The book is a narrative in alternating chapters from the perspective of two people who, over a century apart, fought against one of the most shocking and persistent evils in the world: the trafficking of slaves and the sexual exploitation of slaves from the viewpoint of Harriet Jacobs in the 19th century and Timothy Ballard in the present day. ***** Harriet Jacobs was an African American who was born into slavery in North Carolina in 1813. For many years, she resisted her master's sexual advances until she managed to escape and hid for seven years in the attic of her grandmother's house before finally fleeing north to freedom. She published an autobiography about her life titled Incidents in the Life of a Slave…