There are an estimated 30 million slaves in the world today, more than at any point in history, including 1.1 million slaves in Europe. This lecture lays out new research into the facts, figures and forms of global slavery and human trafficking. It offers a new, comprehensive definition of contemporary slavery, surveys the main global forms, explains the root causes, and looks at the prevalence in particular countries. It also introduces the voices of contemporary slaves, who tell their stories in modern slave narratives, and argues that now, as in the 19th century, former slaves are engaged in a process of self-making, resisting slavery's objectifications.Finally, it introduces the visual culture of the contemporary antislavery movement and shows that, so far, this culture has mainly reinforced the'nobody' status of today's enslaved people.