When Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, it was hailed as a monumental step forward in the critical fight against “modern-day slavery.” And who could possibly be against fighting slavery? Our history class textbooks might have taught us we got rid of it during the Civil War, but sometime around the turn of the 21st Century, an impressively diverse cross-section of NGO activists, politicians, and law enforcement officials began gravely informing the public that “slavery” never actually went away, and in fact remained shockingly pervasive. Resolute action, they explained, would be needed at once to stamp out this hidden scourge.