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The extent of modern slavery is difficult to put an estimate on.<ref>[https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the-edge/2015/07/28/modern-slavery-no-one-knows-the-extent Slavery Didn't End in the 19th Century], ''U.S News and World Report''</ref> Although slavery is outlawed in all countries today and the percentage of people in slavery has diminished in the world, many anti-slavery activists claim there are more people working in slavelike conditions than at any time in history.<ref>[https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the-edge/2015/07/28/modern-slavery-no-one-knows-the-extent Slavery Didn't End in the 19th Century], ''U.S News and World Report''</ref>
The extent of modern slavery is difficult to put an estimate on.<ref>[https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the-edge/2015/07/28/modern-slavery-no-one-knows-the-extent Slavery Didn't End in the 19th Century], ''U.S News and World Report''</ref> Although slavery is outlawed in all countries today and the percentage of people in slavery has diminished in the world, many anti-slavery activists claim there are more people working in slavelike conditions than at any time in history.<ref>[https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the-edge/2015/07/28/modern-slavery-no-one-knows-the-extent Slavery Didn't End in the 19th Century], ''U.S News and World Report''</ref>
== Christian roots of abolition movement ==
[[William Wilberforce]] was a devout [[Christianity|Christian]], philanthropist,[[abolitionist]], and the leader of the campaign against the [[Slave Trade]].
[[Thomas Sowell]] wrote:
{{cquote|While slavery was common to all civilizations, as well as to peoples considered uncivilized, only one civilization developed a moral revulsion against it, very late in hits history…not even the leading moralists in other civilizations rejected slavery at all…. Moreover, within [[Western civilization]], the principle impetus for the abolition of slavery came first from very [[conservative]] religious activists – people who would today be called ‘the religious right.’…this story is not ‘[[politically correct]]’ in today’s terms. Hence it is ignored, as if it never happened.”<ref>Sowell, Thomas (2005) The real history of slavery. In Black Rednecks and White Liberals. San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books</ref>}}
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