While most Americans believe their connection to slavery ended with the emancipation proclamation, the unfortunate reality is that it exists to this day – and the evidence is on everyone’s dinner plates. A new investigative report reveals that laborers on fishing ships are frequently forced to work up to 52 hours straight under dangerous conditions, and are paid only $260 a month for unlimited hours. Because many companies won’t disclose where they get their seafood from, avoiding purchasing slave-fished products is difficult to impossible for consumers. Benjamin Skinner is a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and is author of the report.