Dillon Burroughs - Not in My Town: Exposing and Ending Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery

Charles Powell has been a strong presence in the Deep South for a long time. He has provided security and protection to celebrities and has advised me on security when I needed it. I have watched his writing evolve for over a decade. This book is about an issue that haunts America and the worlda vitally important topic. The subject matter is nothing short of pure eviland how do we defeat it.

LUIS URREA, 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and
member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame

People are not stirred by sympathy but are moved by empathy. Charles Powell and Dillon Burroughs have given the world an empathetic, verbal photograph of the intolerable and unbelievable dimensions of human slavery in the twenty-first century. Not in My Town will shock you out of the complacency of your comfort zone as you read the pitiful plight of 30 million people on planet Earth and realize that America is one of the top three havens in the world for human trafficking. Charles Powell and Dillon Burroughs will make you feel a firestorm of mixed emotions and then it will make you mad; hopefully, mad enough to eliminate the problem!

DR. RONALD W CARPENTER, SR., presiding bishop,
International Pentecostal Holiness Church

This book is a must-read. Even from a survivors point this book is very bold and truth telling. It hits the soul of those who wish to speak and feel we have no words to express our pain and what we go through. Charles and Dillon did a brilliant job bringing about the situations of what these victims have gone through, that we didnt choose this circumstance as a slave didnt choose to be chattel.

CHONG N. KIM, trafficking survivor, author, and abolitionist

Charles Powell has focused his investigative skills on a scourge too few of us knew existed. The scope of modern-day slavery is mind-boggling, its stories heartbreakingand theres a good chance its victims are right in your own backyard! if you dont believe me, open this book and let Charles and Dillon take you on a tour of the seamy side of America. Youll never be the same.

NATE LARKIN, founder of the Samson Society and author of Samson
and the Pirate Monks: Calling Men to Authentic Brotherhood

What a privilege to recommend the work of Dillon and Charles to you! Each of them has impacted our lives at Home of Hope-Texas as they combat this evil called modern-day slavery and human trafficking. It is a great honor to have this book and video effort dedicated to my late wife, Sandra Bass Palmer. Our prayer is that as these servants pour the water of Not in My Town, He will cause it to become wine in your heart!

MARK PALMER, administrator, Bringing Hope, Inc., Home of Hope-Texas

Not in My Town is a book for these times. Over the past 20 years I have traveled the world seeing glimpses of the reality of slavery. In the past 3 years I have seen firsthand hundreds of people enslaved, beaten, and/or sold. I am an eyewitness to what this book is all about. Not in My Town is exposing the modern-day exploitation of human beings in sex slavery, domestic servitude, and all kinds of forced labor. I applaud Charles Powell and Dillon Burroughs for communicating facts and real-life dramas in this unfolding story of human suffering. Both of these men are men of integrity and they have a heart to set the captives free!

BRUCE LADEBU, founder and president of Childrens Rescue Initiative

( www.thechildrensrescue.org )

Modern human trafficking is not the image of slavery that first comes to mind. It is a hidden, barely visible system. No Middle Passage nor slave markets nor Southern plantations. And its about more than sex. We likely all benefit from it, from the harvesting of the food we eat to the making of the clothes we wear. Not in My Town helps us develop eyes for seeing and hands for responding.

LYLE SMITH GRAYBEAL, coordinator, Renovar USA*

My friend Charles Powell is one of those rare individuals who cares more about about righting the wrongs of society than maintaining the religious status quo. I admire his courage. And I pray that his bold attempt to confront and expose the evil of sex trafficking in the United States will wake up a sleeping church and ignite a fire for justice in all of us.

J. LEE GRADY, journalist, author of The Holy Spirit Is Not for Sale
and 10 Lies the Church Tells Women

Charles Powell and Dillon Burroughs invite you to join them, to enter the world of human trafficking and modern slavery. They reveal the realities we too often ignore. They expose how nearby the abuse occurs. And their stories and conversations welcome us to enter the group of people who will refuse to ignore this topic.

CHRIS MAXWELL, author, pastor, speaker,
spiritual life director, Royston, Georgia

NOT IN MY
TOWN

New Hope Publishers
P O. Box 12065
Birmingham, AL 35202-2065
www.newhopepublishers.com
New Hope Publishers is a division of WMU.

2011 by Dillon Burroughs and Charles Powell
All rights reserved. First printing 2011.
Printed in the United States of America.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwisewithout the prior written permission of the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Burroughs, Dillon.

Not in my town : exposing and ending human trafficking and modern-day slavery / Dillon Burroughs, Charles Powell.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ).

ISBN 978-1-59669-301-2 (pbk.)

1. Human trafficking--United States. 2. Human trafficking--United States--Prevention. 3. Prostitution--United States. 4. Prostitution--United States--Prevention. I. Powell, Charles, 1962- II. Title.

HQ314.B87 2011

306.3620973--dc22

2011008816

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

Interior design: Glynese Northam

ISBN-10: 1-59669-301-0
ISBN-13: 978-1-59669-301-2
N114136 0511 5M

EXPOSING & ENDING HUMAN TRAFFICKING & MODERN-DAY SLAVERY

DILLON BURROUGHS

AND

CHARLES POWELL

DEDICATION

We dedicate this book to Sandra Bass Palmer (19552010),
the first woman we met who loved Jesus and freeing girls from slavery
with equal passion. Her impact continues despite her departure
from this world. Many will be changed as a result.