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U.S. Slavery Didn't End When North Won Civil War

When Gabriel receives her honor today in the nation's capital, a national spotlight will be shone on a practice many thought was as bygone as the Southern cotton plantations of the mid-1800s.

Gabriel, along with Lucas Benitez and Romeo Ramirez, are being honored for fighting slavery and protecting human rights through their Florida-based Coalition of Immokalee Workers.

For Gabriel, her story began in 1992 when the Guatemalan immigrant was driven from Arizona to a forced-labor camp in South Carolina, where she was held for three months with 70 other undocumented workers. After months of being yelled at and having guns pointed at her, Gabriel escaped with 30 other workers and contacted authorities.


http://www.staronline.com/vcs/county_news/article/0,1375,VCS_226_2443094,00.html