@article{ref1,
title="The anti-slavery project: linking the historical and contemporary",
journal="Human rights quarterly",
year="2006",
author="Quirk, Joel",
volume="28",
number="3",
pages="565-598",
abstract="This article explores the relationship between the historical events surrounding the legal abolition of slavery, and the widespread and often longstanding practices that fall under the rubric of &quot;contemporary forms of slavery.&quot; Slavery is routinely dismissed as an historical artifact, but this complacent viewpoint obscures a range of complex and enduring problems. In this article, I suggest that one of the main limitations of an emerging literature on contemporary slavery is a recurrent tendency to downplay or disregard the historical dimensions of current problems, in favor of a problematic bifurcation between &quot;new&quot; and &quot;old.&quot; Employing a macro-historical perspective, I take up the complex relationship between the historical and contemporary, introducing the concept of an &quot;Anti-Slavery Project,&quot; which builds upon the notion that the present status quo can be traced to both the remarkable achievements, and substantive limitations, of legal abolition. Keywords: Human trafficking<p />",
language="en",
issn="0275-0392",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}