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Modern-Day Slavery Museum

Leonel Perez, center, and Jaime Ramirezcut modify a tomato grading table to a size that will fit inside a cargo truck last week outside the Coalition of Immokalee Workers office in Immokalee. Beginning Sunday, a replica of the cargo truck used to enslave Immokalee tomato farmworkers, a case that was prosecuted in 2008, will be on a statewide tour. The grading table was doubled as a bed at night for the farmworkers who were locked inside the truck. The CIW will kick off a six-week tour with the Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum that will end with the Farmworker Freedom March from Tampa to Lakeland, Fla., April 16-18. Lexey Swall/Staff

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Leonel Perez, center, and Jaime Ramirezcut modify a tomato grading table to a size that will fit inside a cargo truck last week outside the Coalition of Immokalee Workers office in Immokalee. Beginning Sunday, a replica of the cargo truck used to enslave Immokalee tomato farmworkers, a case that was prosecuted in 2008, will be on a statewide tour. The grading table was doubled as a bed at night for the farmworkers who were locked inside the truck. The CIW will kick off a six-week tour with the Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum that will end with the Farmworker Freedom March from Tampa to Lakeland, Fla., April 16-18. Lexey Swall/Staff

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  • Leonel Perez, from left, Jaime Ramirez and Elvin Perez pull out a tomato grading table from a cargo truck to cut it down to a size that will fit last week outside the Coalition of Immokalee Workers office in Immokalee. Beginning Sunday, a replica of the cargo truck used to enslave Immokalee tomato farmworkers, a case that was prosecuted in 2008, will be on a statewide tour. The CIW will kick off a six-week tour with the Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum that will end with the Farmworker Freedom March from Tampa to Lakeland, Fla., April 16-18. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Leonel Perez, center, and Jaime Ramirezcut modify a tomato grading table to a size that will fit inside a cargo truck last week outside the Coalition of Immokalee Workers office in Immokalee. Beginning Sunday, a replica of the cargo truck used to enslave Immokalee tomato farmworkers, a case that was prosecuted in 2008, will be on a statewide tour. The grading table was doubled as a bed at night for the farmworkers who were locked inside the truck. The CIW will kick off a six-week tour with the Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum that will end with the Farmworker Freedom March from Tampa to Lakeland, Fla., April 16-18. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Beginning Sunday, this replica of the cargo truck used to enslave Immokalee tomato farmworkers, a case that was prosecuted in 2008, will be on a statewide tour. The CIW will kick off a six-week tour with the Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum that will end with the Farmworker Freedom March from Tampa to Lakeland, Fla., April 16-18. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • A bloodstained shirt taken from a victim in one of seven slavery cases that the CIW helped to get prosecuted is encased in glass and will be on display in the Florida Modern Slavery Museum. Beginning Sunday, a replica of the cargo truck used to enslave Immokalee tomato farmworkers, a case that was prosecuted in 2008, will be on a statewide tour. The CIW will kick off a six-week tour with the Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum that will end with the Farmworker Freedom March from Tampa to Lakeland, Fla., April 16-18. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Silvia Perez, right, and others remove boxes from inside a cargo truck that will be used as the Florida Modern Slavery Museum last week outside the Coalition of Immokalee Workers office in Immokalee. A bloodstained shirt, left, taken from a victim in one of seven slavery cases that the CIW helped to get prosecuted is encased in glass and will be on display in the museum. Beginning Sunday, a replica of the cargo truck used to enslave Immokalee tomato farmworkers, a case that was prosecuted in 2008, will be on a statewide tour. The CIW will kick off a six-week tour with the Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum that will end with the Farmworker Freedom March from Tampa to Lakeland, Fla., April 16-18. Lexey Swall/Staff

Beginning Sunday, a replica of the cargo truck used to enslave Immokalee tomato farmworkers, a case that was prosecuted in 2008, will be on a statewide tour. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers will kick off a six-week tour with the Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum that will end with the Farmworker Freedom March from Tampa to Lakeland, Fla., April 16-18.

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