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Jimmy Carter: U.S. one of worst offenders in modern slavery
March 24, 2014
By Aaron Blake
Former president Jimmy Carter says in a new interview that the United States is the one of the world's worst offenders when it comes to modern-day slavery, saying its slave trade is worse today than it was even in the 1700s.
"The United States is one of the most culpable countries in ... modern slavery," Carter said in an interview on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports." "The slave trade now greatly exceeds anything that happened in the 19th and 18th centuries."
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The United States banned the importation of slaves starting in 1808, but slavery itself persisted for another half-century.
Carter said that, of the 29
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