Benjamin Skinner From Bucharest to Port-au-Prince, from northern India to southern Sudan, Benjamin Skinner is the first person in history to observe the sale of human beings on four continents. He is a specialist in modern day slavery, the antithesis of freedom, which affects more people today than at any other time in history. Though the term slavery is all too often thrown around as a substitute for drudgery, toil, or undue hardship, the true definition is far from metaphor. Skinner asks us to not to stand idly by as we ponder this evil, but to take action, together, to abolish slavery forever.

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Benjamin Skinner is a abolitionist and journalist. Going undercover when necessary, Skinner has infiltrated urban child markets, illegal brothels, and wide networks of human trafficking; he has visited some of the poorest and most desperate places on the planet to tell the stories of those who, forced by poverty and lawlessness, toil for no pay under the threat of violence. Having personally observed the sale of human beings on four continents, he published his findings in A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery in 2008. The book was awarded the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for nonfiction. Skinner was named a 2008 Adventurer of the Year by National Geographic Adventure. He is a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy of the Harvard Kennedy School and a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.