"Bush drew a just line when he proscribed ‘voluntary’ child prostitution, which, shockingly, some nations still considered legitimate if distasteful. But he made no mention of child slaves in other industries like the restavèks of Haiti. Was a girl who was raped by her master less violated if her body was sold first into domestic labor? He made no mention of slaves taken in war. Was Muong’s mother less raped by her master because she was never sold into commercial sex? And he made no mention of the millions of slaves who languished in generational debt bondage on the Asian subcontinent. Yet, despite making no mention of these, the great numerical majority if slaves worldwide, Bush purported to speak for all those in bondage."

E. Benjamin Skinner. A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery. p. 113.

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