ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The slaves who once stared with terror at prospective buyers in the covered market here in America’s oldest city may be long gone, but tens of millions of their 21st-century brethren wear similar desperate expressions all over the world, including in the United States.
How can we tolerate such a disgrace? How [...]

WASHINGTON — More than two centuries after America’s first president, George Washington, dramatically freed his personal slaves, President George W. Bush grapples with the issue of involuntarily subjugated people. So will his successor, which leads me to ask:
Will human trafficking, as it is now known, ever end? Equally important, does anyone care?

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – In 1799, George Washington, America’s first president, personally took an important but still-debated step against one of the most despicable practices in human society: slavery.

WASHINGTON – Although I sympathize with the Tibetans here who have protested President George W. Bush’s plans to attend the Olympics’ opening ceremony in Beijing this August, the options for world leaders go well beyond the two extremes of gleeful participation in and angry avoidance of the games.
In an attempt to justify his decision, Bush [...]