Governments that are tolerating this trade "are tolerating a form of slavery" (King 3). ... Human trafficking has become the "perfect crime" (King 21). ... But behind each dollar sign is a human tragedy" (King 22). ... Our bodies were utterly sore and swollen" (King 29). ... Slave traders prey on the weak and most vulnerable women or traders will violently abduct them (King). ...

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Senator Rufus King of New York made the best-known of several such verbal excursions against slavery. In a speech on the Senate floor, King proclaimed that he had "yet to learn that one man can make a slave of another. ... " King later renounced some of the radical suggestions of this declaration for slavery beyond Missouri, but it was a sign of how far the debates had pressed some Northerners. ...

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Portugal had been present in Western Africa for several years but in 1445 the King, Henry the Navigator instructed his sailors on their way to the continent to win over the natives so they could purchase human beings to be used as free labour rather than to kidnap them as they had done previously4. ...

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