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Sold: Fighting the New Global Slave Trade: Directed by Jody Hassett Sanchez. With Mira Nair. SOLD: Fighting the New Global Slave Trade uses parallel story telling to step into the lives of three contemporary abolitionists in different countries.
- Jody Hassett Sanchez
- 2010
- Documentary, News
- 52
SOLD: Fighting the New Global Slave Trade: Offers an intimate look at the lives of three contemporary abolitionists. Explores the complexities of modern day slavery. Introduces several extraordinary former slaves who’ve been restored. Examines how questions of faith factor into this fight.
- 2 min
- 5,6K
- Jody Hassett Sanchez
My hope is that SOLD: Fighting the New Global Slave Trade will do more than just expose the darkness of slavery today. There are already so many films that document what is wrong with the world, exposing us to image after tragic image, adding to our collective compassion fatigue.
Symphorienne Kessouagni lives and works in a rural corner of Togo where children are sold to traffickers every day by their parents. These poor families find it easier to let their young children go, rather than bear the shame of being unable to care for them.
But there are more slaves today than ever before — as many as 23 million — and today's slave traders prey on vulnerable and innocent children. Filmed in India, Togo and Pakistan, SOLD intertwines the stories of three courageous individuals who defy death threats, carry out daring rescues and challenge powerful interests in the battle to end ...
A firebrand Christian, Symphorienne struggles to help her children believe in a heavenly father who cares for them, even though their biological fathers have abandoned or sold them.
Today, slave traders prey on the youngest and most vulnerable. In a remote part of Togo, children are sold into slavery every day. Symphorienne Kessouagni helps children escape slavery and offers them sanctuary.
