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Dong Lledo / Xochilt Sanchez / Katie Martin ... I Am a Survivor of Human Trafficking: Nena's Story
“I had to brush the dogs’ teeth, clean their ears, and give them vitamins each day. But I had to sleep on a dog bed in the living room.”
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Othello Banaci / Steve Pavey / Hope in ... I Am a Survivor of Human Trafficking: Natalicia's Story
“I was a fixture in the house; a robot there to do things for them. I felt invisible, dispensable, and alone.”
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Othello Banaci / National Domestic Workers Alliance / ... Survivors of Human Trafficking, in Their Own Words
Three stories of women who came to America looking for a better life, but instead found astonishing cruelty
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Corbis / Getty A Horrifying Path to America for Hotel Workers
Racida Eslabon came to the U.S. expecting to send money back home to the Philippines. She still hasn’t told her mother what happened after she arrived.
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Mariana Bazo / Reuters How U.S. Immigration Law Enables Modern Slavery
By tying workers’ residence status to an employer, the visa system leaves many of them vulnerable to exploitation.
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What the Backlash to ‘My Family’s Slave’ Obscured
Randy Ribay writes: In what I believe is the first photograph of me that exists, there is…
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‘If We Employ Somebody Who Wants to Leave, and Can’t ...’
In our ongoing series of responses to “My Family’s Slave,” we’ve heard from a number of readers who saw…
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Slavery in the Family
Genevieve writes: I was speechless after reading Tizon’s article because I realized my family also had a…
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Bullit Marquez / AP Lola’s Resistant Dignity
Reading “My Family’s Slave” in the context of Philippine history
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E.W. Kemble / New York Public Library The Faithful Slave
How Alex Tizon’s essay echoes a trope with deep roots in American history
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The Social Conditions That Shaped Lola’s Story
Anakbayan USA, a national organization of Filipino youth and students dedicated to advancing democratic rights, sends this response: …
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Growing Up as a Witness to Violence
In addition to the readers who related to the abuses that Eudocia “Lola” Pulido experienced, some readers saw parallels between…
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Muhammad Hamed / Reuters Lola and Her Tormentor
A reporter who covers domestic labor in the Middle East tells of the women who are exploited there, and the women who do the exploiting.
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Survivors Respond to ‘My Family’s Slave’
As numerous readers have written, one of the most moving aspects of “My Family’s Slave” is that Alex Tizon was…
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David Bathgate / Corbis What Does It Feel Like to Have a Slave?
Once, for five days, I found out.
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP Mother, Wife, Slave
Lola and the universality of women’s exploitation
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The Atlantic The Enslaved Woman They Called Lola
Enslavement is a process, not an identity. The use of the word “slave” obscures that fact.
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Grappling With a Story of Modern Slavery
In response to Alex Tizon’s essay “My Family’s Slave,” Richard Buck writes: I am stunned by…
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Lola Wasn't Alone
Slavery persists in homes across America.
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Your Responses to ‘My Family’s Slave’
This week, we published Alex Tizon’s essay “My Family’s Slave,” about the woman he knew as Lola: Eudocia Tomas…
