Introduction xxi Today, the U.S. State Department, the Department of Health and Human Ser- vices, and other U.S. government agencies publish the fi rst-person stories of traf- fi cking survivors, and in 2012 the Obama administration established the fi rst governmental United States Advisory Council on Human Traffi cking of survivors to advise and guide U.S. agencies that play a vital role in eradicating human traf- fi cking, so the importance of including survivors in anti-traffi cking work has now reached U.S. government infrastructure. Looking back over the past four centuries, following the development of anti- slavery movements through the actual primary source material allows us to under- stand the modern-day movements against slavery in a deeper and more rooted way. Indeed, we might even say that the past work of the many who battled for so many years to abolish slavery lives and breathes in the work of the many modern-day abo- litionists today .
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