States battling to end moderan day slave trade, August 2010

To many Americans, slavery is nothing more than a dark scar on our past that died out along with the antebellum South. But for state lawmakers, the effort to end slavery is anything but a relic of a bygone era. Almost exactly 158 years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) says the business of trafficking in human beings is alive and well in America, and state lawmakers are considering a variety of measures to stop it and to help its victims. [click title to continue reading]

Rich Ehisen

Rich Ehisen is an award-winning journalist, editor, and public speaker who has spent more than twenty-five years interviewing and reporting on politicians, athletes, authors, CEOs, celebrities, artists, cops, doers, and dreamers all over the country. He is the managing editor of the State Net Capitol Journal, a LexisNexis publication that covers all 50 statehouses, and his freelance work has appeared in a variety of publications across the country.

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