Astonishing and to the point, World Slavery: The Bigger Picture by Robert Soper examines the appalling, often shocking history of slavery from ancient time to the modern world. Disturbing on a number of fronts, the author isolates incredible acts of cruel brutality at the very dawn of mankind. From early Egypt, Greece, and Rome through the Dark Ages to slavery in Islam, the Far East, and Columbus's first voyage, he describes the Eunuchs and contextualizes the slave experience by describing life in Africa and during the Industrial Revolution, thus providing a unique contrasting assessment. An important and comprehensive work of nonfiction, the author illustrates in twenty-six chapters with measured exactitude human-to-human barbarity that through the ages and the generations has remained relatively intact. His is a formidable narration that is not without opinion, addressing wigmakers, luxury handbag, textiles, and sex trade industries in modern day China, India and the Far East.