Some steps in this direction have already been taken. It is now illegal for a US citizen to cross borders to have sex with a slave. In 2001, the Bush administration took steps to increase executive control over foreign direct investment (FDI) that might contribute to slave conditions. And, on his most recent trip to Sudan, Jay Williams researched the connection between FDI and slave conditions in the region, returning with exhortations for investors to put pressure on companies whose activities indirectly encourage enslavement. These beginnings are humble and certainly far less dramatic than raids on slave colonies or magnanimous efforts to buy back the world’s slaves. But there is considerable hope that, with time and resolve, measures like these might address the root causes of human bondage and leave slavery, at last, truly abolished.