Slavery and war are tightly connected – but we had no idea just how much until we crunched the data

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Slavery and war are tightly connected – but we had no idea just how much until we crunched the data

By Monti Datta,University of Richmond; Angharad Smith, United Nations University, and Kevin Bales, University of Nottingham Some 40 million people are enslaved around the world today, though estimates vary. Modern […]

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