modern-day physical enslavement.

"in developing countries, we see the abduction and auction of child slave laborers, families trapped in debt-bondage toiling in fields, phony 'adoptions' of poor children, false promises of good jobs used to lure and enslave domestic labor across borders, and even the use of the enslaved as sources of organs to be sold in a burgeoning [gray] market. yet many people vulnerable to these dangers continue to avert their eyes, if only because the need to survive leads to denial. after all, how could slavery exist in the same world with modern police and the united nations?"

*excerpted from "enslaved" by jesse sage & liora kasten, pg.x