Over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the U.S. population at the time, died during the American Civil War and institutionalized slavery was brought to an end. Or was it?

A dozen Guatemalan workers “say they were promised jobs planting trees in North Carolina for $7.50 per hour. Instead, they say they were taken in a van to Connecticut without their consent, had their passports confiscated so they would not escape and were threatened with arrest or deportation.”

For more, see Lawsuit accuses Connecticut nursery of human trafficking.