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Cook: Tennessee’s role in ending slavery

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By David Cook 4 min read

photo David Cook

This week, Sen. Bob Corker hopes to introduce one of the most magnificent bills of his career. It is global in scale, deeply moral and won’t cost Washington much at all.

Corker’s legislation would significantly increase America’s fight against modern sex and labor slavery.

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Corker will reveal ‘bold vision’ to end slavery worldwide

“The bill would be the most important thing to happen to the modern abolition movement,” said Holly Burkhalter, vice president with the anti-trafficking International Justice Mission.

Some see the bill as the trafficking equivalent of what President George W. Bush did through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Corker is swinging for the fence. Rightly so.