He went to Sudan and saw the thriving slave trade there. Jesse Jackson didn't go to the Sudan. The American Anti-Slavery Society, of which I am a proud member has begged these folks and other Black notables for years to either go to the Sudan or at least speak out about the slave trade. Their pleas have fallen on deliberately deaf ears. For the last two decades the Islamic government of Sudan has waged an unyielding and vicious war against the Animist and Christian native people.
Raiders frequently attack villages, killing the men and kidnapping the women and children.
There's no way to sugar coat the description on how these enslaved people live. They face almost unspeakable cruelty every single day. Imagine for a moment that you are a young Sudanese child. Your village has been burned to ground. Your father and elders have been slaughtered before your eyes.