The Third Abolition: A Christian Study and Action Guide to Human Trafficking and the Problems Hidden in Plain Sight

by mako nagasawa and cara garrity | the Anástasis center | TBD

There are more people enslaved than ever before, at any period of human history. Yet which belief system can sustain and nurture a genuine abolition effort? Christians, confused and grieved by white Christian involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, forget that earlier Christians fought slavery in the early church, and abolished slavery in northwestern and northern Europe; then, British Christians abolished slavery throughout the British Empire and elsewhere in the 1800’s. We now need a third abolition. This curriculum is in progress. It is designed to introduce people (church communities, student groups, etc.) to human trafficking today and how to participate in anti-trafficking actions, personally and in policies.

1. Introduction to Systems of Trafficking 

2. Labor Trafficking

3. Pornography

4. Sex Trafficking

5. Intervention and Recovery

6. Self-Reflection and Transformation

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