But the article is about a new fighter against modern slavery:
Zach Hunter was only 12 years old when he became an abolitionist. During Black History Month three years ago, as he read about Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, he thought he, too, would have fought against slavery if he'd lived back then. But to his astonishment, Zach found soon afterward that people are still held as slaves today.
"When I learned there were about 27 million slaves in the world, it blew me away," says the high school freshman from Atlanta. "I wondered what I could do."
If you think slavery doesn't exist, think again.
It includes huge numbers of prostitutes in the United States, farmers in India who work off debt, and maids who are recruited from third world countries but after they arrive are not paid, are mistreated, locked up and passports confiscated so they can't leave. (Last summer, during the Lebanon war, I wrote about the "Rapunzels" who were Pinays who died jumping out of windows to flee Beruit, because their employers had locked them up).
There is a petition HERE to abolish slavery. The link connects the new Wilberforce movie and Zach's crusade to end modern slavery.
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