Kevin Bales, President of Free the Slaves in Washington, D.C. (www.freetheslaves.net) and Professor of Sociology at Roehampton University London in England, is the author of "Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy "and "Understanding Global Slavery "(both from UC Press), among other books. Ron Soodalter, historian, folklorist, and lecturer, is the author of "Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader, " as well as articles on the historic and modern slave trade, the Civil War, and the American West. A respected Lincolnian scholar, he serves on the Boar...