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Dear Friends, One of the worst crimes in the history of man is human slavery. Unfortunately, it didn't end in the American Civil War; it was only outlawed. Today there are thousands of slaves in the U.S. and millions more overseas. They're real people, just like you and me, but they've been sold or tricked or kidnapped into slavery. A hundred and fifty years ago, <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i> brought a tremendous fuel to the abolitionist movement in the time leading up to the Civil War. It helped to free the slaves, by making the slave human to the world. <a href="http://www.riverofinnocents.com">River of Innocents</a> is an Uncle Tom's Cabin for today's world, where slavery is still very much alive. Today's slaves are real people, flesh and blood and beating hearts, and more of them are sold each decade than were sold in the entire 400-year-history of the African slave trade. River of Innocents: In a world of stolen children and broken dreams, the seventeen-year-old Majlinda struggles to hold on to her humanity. She has no control over her life or even over her own body, yet where people are disposable, where rape is part of the normal day, and where guards watch her every move, Majlinda strives to create a family out of the stolen children around her and to give them hope when all they know is fear. <i>River</i> is a novel about that hope and that terrible fear, about ideals in the face of despair, about the strength we find in ourselves when others need us, and about slavery as it is. If we are to end today's slavery, we must first know of it; here is the story of Majlinda's long struggle to be free. http://www.riverofinnocents.com <hr/> <i>River</i> is what I've been working on lately--you can confirm what I've said about slavery via the "Slavery in the Media" link off of the web site, or by doing a web search for "New York Times Magazine The Girls Next Door" or "Human Trafficking." I wrote it because I learned about people not very far from me who were kept locked up and were rented out ten and twenty times a day and more. "Rented out" in the sense of "raped by men who paid to have sex with them." On their best days, they might only be raped a few times. When you learn about something this bad, one of the first things you do--after you can feel anything through the rage, the sadness, and the disbelief--is you ask "What can I <i>do</i> about it?" <a href="http://www.riverofinnocents.com"><i>River of Innocents</i></a> was the answer. <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i> worked 150 years ago: it made a difference and helped to free thousands of slaves. <i>River of Innocents</i> is <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i> for slavery today. It is a part of what I can do--of what we all can do--to free the slaves. Please read it, and talk about it, and spread the word: Slavery is real. Slaves are real. They're in the world today, and we can help to set them free. ~ Terry Lee Wright <hr/> Please post this all on your blog--here's <a href="http://www.riverofinnocents.com/static/lj.html">a link to the html</a>--or write your own message about it. Promotion code lj7q5 gives a 10% discount at the publisher's website through the end of May. Remember, every day thousands of people are enslaved for the first time. Every day counts. We <i>can</i> make a difference--but we need to start now. <i>Every day counts.</i> <hr/>

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