These days, it has names like human trafficking. But as the St. Thomas University professor said, the effect is little different: barbed wire, barred windows, forced sex, forced labor. Plus the more modern coercion of debt bondage and threats of deportation.
That's why Pati and other experts gather every year for the Human Trafficking Academy, an intensive, weeklong program on the status of the war — and on new weapons and tactics for fighting it.
"Slavery never left us," said Pati, who held the most recent academy Aug. 1-5. "It has changed, morphed into various forms. But it's still here. Combating it is a moral imperative."
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