We shudder to think that our country was once home to the practice of slavery, and that we fought a civil war over it.
And we're not quite done shuddering, because slavery has not yet disappeared from the planet.
Millions of people around the world are trapped in working conditions they cannot change, and International Justice Mission is one of several organizations working to end such slavery.
Rotary International also now fields an Action Group Against Child Slavery.Kate Case of IJM and Caleb LaPlante from Rotary tell us about the agency's targeting of slavery and violence.