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The Historical Perspective On Sex Trafficking

Sally Roesch Wagner is the executive director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, New York, and is a nationally recognized lecturer, author and performance interpreter of woman's rights history. Wagner appeared as a "talking head" in the Ken Burns PBS documentary, "Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony" for which she wrote the accompanying faculty guide for PBS. She discussed the roots of exploitation and provided historical perspective on the problem of sex trafficking.