“Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world’s population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine’s Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.”
—Kevin Bales, Ending Slavery: How We Free Today’s Slaves (page 3)
Here are 3 reasons why you should support Free the Slaves through the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) : Liberation - Your pledge can literally help us #FreetheSlaves! By donating to FTS, your funds can help support our work in liberating enslaved people in places like...
It must have seemed like an impossible challenge more than 150 years ago, that the moral imperative to end the slave trade and injustice it inflicted on Africans could actually succeed. Back then, slavery was considered ethically acceptable and economically necessary....
Lots of people ask us if we’re “winning the war” on slavery. The truth is that in many vital ways, we are! Free the Slaves has awakened the world to the fact that slavery still exists. We’ve crafted a global blueprint for what needs to be done. We’ve pilot-tested...
