Christian Solidarity International said the latest action brought to 20,961 the number of slaves freed through its program since 1995.

"But certainly a well-connected individual such as yourself would be able to have him freed through the use of your considerable contacts."

Such results compare with 5,016 victims freed through 154 operations targeting 290 properties in 2008.

Others arrived as slaves, but in the early years could sometimes be freed from slavery through work.

Dance is a place where emotions are freed through the body, and that is not condoned in men.

Barbary slaves could hope to be freed through payment of a ransom.

Nevertheless, his vision of a world freed from labor through automated devices remains with us, and may yet find a more complete realization.

Groups of as many as 50 inmates freed under a Federal court order dash through the gantlet.

He was freed through a prisoner exchange in 1779.

Muslim slaves were either freed or exchanged through special legislation and international treaties.