Slavery Has NOT Ended

February is Black History Month here in the USA. We have speeches, assemblies, specials on TV, any number of community events, an annually-issued commemorative postage stamp, proclamations, etc., etc,. etc., all to inform or remind us of the valuable contributions African Americans have made to our culture and society.

Just about everybody knows that the first African Americans did not come here by their own choice. They were brought here as slaves and suffered all sorts of unimaginable atrocities. Fewer people stop to realize that this form of slavery was halted because Christian men like William Wilberforce and Abraham Lincoln were able to use their influence and political power to bring such a halt about.

Far fewer people realize that slavery did not end there. I read in the July-August 2007 issue of Mission Frontiers, a publication of the United States Center for World Mission, that there are MORE slaves today - today - than were brought over here from Africa over a four century period. These people are either held against their will for forced labor or forced sex. Or both. It is a world wide tragedy.

Please click on the above link and then see the archives to read more. Visit the web site of an orgainzation called the International Justice Mission where you can find out more information on how to stop slavery, one perpetrator at a time.