Buy Some Stuff, Enslave Somebody by Josh Rosenblatt

This is the world John Bowe stumbled into in 2001. Bowe, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and National Public Radio's "This American Life", was in North Carolina working on a book called Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs when he heard about a community group in South Florida that had uncovered a slavery ring in local orange groves. Fascinated, Bowe headed to the small town of Lake Placid, where rumors were spreading ... Full Story »

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The book review itself is quite readable, and presents a compelling case for reading the book for anybody who buys tomatoes or cares about peace and justice. He reports that the book "...is heartbreaking and important, with the sense of humanity necessary to speak for those who’ve been denied the ability to speak for themselves."

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