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Article: Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2005
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Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. By Suzanne Miers. (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 505. $35.95.)
Recent media coverage of Mauritania and the Sudan has highlighted the resilience of slavery as an institution long after its supposed abolition in most of the world during the nineteenth century. There has also been increasing interest in the "disposable people" caught up in the "new slavery" created in Africa, Asia, and Latin America by the demands of the modern global economy. The survival of various systems of forced labor into the early twenty-first century should come as no surprise. Historians, especially ...