Interview: C.S. Lewis on Human Trafficking

by Amanda Kloer · 2009-06-22 07:00:00 UTC
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Each week, I will be bringing you a new interview with a formerly-active activist or abolitionist, that is, someone now deceased.  I'll be talking to the men and women who paved the way for the abolitionists of today and getting their thoughts on the problems and solutions of modern-day slavery.  How do I contact not just the dead, but the famous and dead?  Every good blogger must have her secrets!

This week... C.S. Lewis

How's the afterlife treating you?

Just me, God, and some very comfortable chairs.

For those non-biography readers out there, how about you tell me a little about yourself.

I was an Irish writer and novelist, mostly famous for The Screwtape Letters and The Chronicles of Narnia.  I was also a devout Christian who viewed my writing as a way to express my faith and my sense of justice to the world.  I've been a great figure for both fantasy fiction and Christianity.

 What do you think is the biggest problem in the modern-day abolitionist movement?

Mankind is subject to a universal morality; we know what it is and we know when we break it.  We try and make these social issues, like modern-day slavery, more complicated, but they are not. 

If you were alive, what would you do to fight slavery?

I would convince people that there is a real, absolute morality, and that human trafficking violates that.  We as human beings are sacred creatures; no one deserves to be owned or treated as a slave.

Any last thoughts for our readers?

This is actually exactly what I had in mind when I first wrote the Chronicles of Narnia.

Amanda Kloer is a Change.org Editor and has been a full-time abolitionist in several capacities for seven years. Follow her on Twitter @endhumantraffic
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