Analysis: Slavery in various parts of the world today

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NEAL CONAN
NPR Talk of the Nation
08-27-2003
Analysis: Slavery in various parts of the world today

Host: NEAL CONAN
Time: 3:00-4:00 PM

NEAL CONAN, host:

This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.

`Slavery' is a word that most of us read in history books. If it exists today at all, we think, it must be in some benighted part of the world very far away. This month, though, National Geographic magazine in text and photographs shows its readers that slavery is much more prevalent and much closer than we think, and as malevolent as ever.

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