Young Heroes - A Learner's Guide to Changing the World - Abolish Slavery Edition

"This wonderful book is a wise guide and rich counsel for all of us who want to make the world more free and decent!" - Dr. Cornel West, philosopher, academic, activist, and author of Race Matters. "The Abolish Slavery edition of YOUNG HEROES offers a wonderfully creative and compelling introduction to modern-day slavery. Through images, histories, exercises, and action items, this smart and accessible learner's guide will help to inspire a new generation of abolitionists and equip them with the analysis and activist tools they need to confront this most pressing human rights challenge." -Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Harvard University, and Board Member of Free the Slaves. With more slaves in the world today than ever before - an estimated 27 million - and incredibly few resources available for youth to learn about modern-day slavery and human trafficking, the need for change has become clearly apparent. In presentation and content, Young Heroes is a dynamic and fresh youth-focused resource unlike any other. Tapping into youth-culture’s growing passion to change the world, Young Heroes seeks to empower its readers to reach their highest potential and be the change the world needs. Offering engaging reading, unique assignments, self-reflection and examination tools, on-line projects, and action-based activities, Young Heroes cuts across political, cultural, and secular/religious boundaries, thus lending itself to all types of people and varying learning styles. The design incorporates a user-friendly, newspaper-style layout, through sixteen visually stimulating chapters, while comprehensively describing one of today’s most pressing social justice issue. Young Heroes was created through an integrative lens of multiple disciplines including philosophy, psychology, philanthropy, religious studies, history, economics, and political science. With a foreword by Pulitzer Prize Nominee Kevin Bales, author of Disposable People, Young Heroes is bound to touch readers and inspire them to make a difference.