Quotes from Modern Bondage

By Marvin Olasky
World Magazine (July 12/19, 2008), pages 24-25


The following are quotes from an article entitled Modern Bondage, an interview with E. Benjamin Skinner, the author of A Crime So Monstrous.

1. A 10-year-old girl was offered to be used for sexual and domestic slavery, for $50…compare that to 1850 when a slave in the American South would cost between $30,000 to $40,000, in today’s dollars.

2. As many as 400,000 Moldovans have been trafficked internationally.

3. Previously known as “the untouchables,” they are currently called the Dalit (“crushed”), who occupy the lowest tier of the Hindu caste system…Today, they form a majority of the 260 million Indians living on less than a dollar a day.

4. Every half hour, on average, one more person enters the United States and loses freedom. Many are held in underground brothels, illegal factories, illicit escort services, or tucked-away plantations. But some might be held in our neighborhood.


Modern Bondage by Marvin Olasky. World Magazine. July 12/19, 2008. Pages 24-25.