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"At the End of Slavery" Screening
Presented by Fellowship of Christian Graduate Students
Location: Chambers Auditorium (above the MU Bookstore, on the University of Missouri campus)
Narrated by actor Danny Glover, At the End of Slavery: The Battle for Justice in our Time takes you inside the violent and ugly business of modern-day slavery — the buying and selling of human beings — from the brothels of the Philippines to the brick kilns of India.
Undercover footage and first-person testimony from former slaves and respected experts expose the enormity of the crime — but a remarkable strategy and the courage of today's abolitionists offer hope for a final end to this brutal trade.
Shot on location in the Philippines, India, Cambodia and the U.S., At the End of Slavery takes you to the frontlines of today's battle for justice and includes true stories of former slaves and undercover footage from police operations to rescue children from brothels. International Justice Mission's investigators, lawyers and social workers and their clients, along with other leading abolitionists and anti-trafficking experts, show that there is nothing inevitable about slavery. Law enforcement success in finding and rescuing victims, and prosecuting perpetrators, demonstrates the real possibility of an end to this trade.
Two hundred years ago, British abolitionists used an image of the slave ship "Brookes" depicting the inhumane conditions in which enslaved Africans were transported across the Atlantic to expose the brutality of slavery to people who had never met or even seen a slave themselves. This image galvanized the abolition movement.