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Dong Lledo / Xochilt Sanchez / Katie Martin … I Am a Survivor of Human Trafficking: Nena's Story
“I had to brush the dogs’ teeth, clean their ears, and give them vitamins each day. But I had to sleep on a dog bed in the living room.”
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Othello Banaci / Steve Pavey / Hope in … I Am a Survivor of Human Trafficking: Natalicia's Story
“I was a fixture in the house; a robot there to do things for them. I felt invisible, dispensable, and alone.”
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Othello Banaci / National Domestic Workers Alliance / … Survivors of Human Trafficking, in Their Own Words
Three stories of women who came to America looking for a better life, but instead found astonishing cruelty
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Mariana Bazo / Reuters How U.S. Immigration Law Enables Modern Slavery
By tying workers’ residence status to an employer, the visa system leaves many of them vulnerable to exploitation.
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Kohei Hara / Getty What the Backlash to ‘My Family’s Slave’ Obscured
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Cynthia Karam / Reuters ‘If We Employ Somebody Who Wants to Leave, and Can’t ...’
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Finbarr O'Reilly / Reuters Slavery in the Family
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Bullit Marquez / AP Lola’s Resistant Dignity
Reading “My Family’s Slave” in the context of Philippine history
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E.W. Kemble / New York Public Library The Faithful Slave
How Alex Tizon’s essay echoes a trope with deep roots in American history
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The Social Conditions That Shaped Lola’s Story
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Desmond Boylan / Reuters Growing Up as a Witness to Violence
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Muhammad Hamed / Reuters Lola and Her Tormentor
A reporter who covers domestic labor in the Middle East tells of the women who are exploited there, and the women who do the exploiting.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Survivors Respond to ‘My Family’s Slave’
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David Bathgate / Corbis What Does It Feel Like to Have a Slave?
Once, for five days, I found out.
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP Mother, Wife, Slave
Lola and the universality of women’s exploitation
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The Atlantic The Enslaved Woman They Called Lola
Enslavement is a process, not an identity. The use of the word “slave” obscures that fact.
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Courtesy of Alex Tizon and His Family Grappling With a Story of Modern Slavery
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Lola Wasn't Alone
Slavery persists in homes across America.
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