Community | August 26, 2009 | 15 comments

There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History

source: http://www.alternet.org/story/142171/

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One hundred forty-three years after passage of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and 60 years after Article 4 of the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights banned slavery and the slave trade worldwide, there are more slaves than at any time in human history -- 27 million.

Today’s slavery focuses on big profits and cheap lives. It is not about owning people like before, but about using them as completely disposable tools for making money.
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15 comments // There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History

  • funnicus
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      funnicus [removed]  

    • If you take a step backwards and look at the whole picture, the slavemasters are the ivy league, the doctors, the lawyers, insurance salesmen, pharmaceutical companies, all who lobby to make you enslaved to them via their laws that require you to pay them for their services. Not paying them is a crime.
      I'll just call you Toby.

    • 2 years ago
  • trut
  • funnicus
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      funnicus [removed]  
    • trut:

      It's funny how ever since the made for tv dramatic movie "ROOTS" that these people are so "hurt".
      As if that was true HA!. Seeing how (white or any color) people treat their animals, I doubt that the south was permeated with screams of people being whipped as they all believe. I'm sure the slaves were afforded the best veterinary care available.

    • 2 years ago
  • Revelation_Machine
  • spacemikey
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      spacemikey [removed]  

    • I think many people are slaves to a capitalist system, if they don't take part in, it would take everything from them (almost). Clearly at the lower end of the income spectrum under capitalism, is a very real form of slavery. Even more traditional definitions of slaves had possessions, and were decently taken care of. What good is a dead slave, and how long does it take to train and grow faith in a trusted one? There were slaves from years gone by treated far better than modern people living at the minimum wage with no benefits. NO it wasn't the rule but it was common.

    • 2 years ago
  • good_stuff
  • spacemikey
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    • spacemikey:

      They weren't all beat and abused, it's been documented well enough in plenty of places where slaves grew up like "family" to the slave owners. Maybe that's why blacks did fight by choice in the civil war for the south? I know if you hand me (and 30-50 of my buddies) a gun after whipping me my whole life you'd probably get shot. Mysteriously this happened a few times (slaves being handed guns) without such shootings occurring. I would go through the effort to find you such stories online (links), but seeing as you're biased to the point of sarcasm, and I'm just ignorant; I'll let you go on feeling, or portraying me as an idiot.

    • 2 years ago
  • samthesixth
  • hunzedog
  • samthesixth
  • DreSandoval
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  • jh64487
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      jh64487  
    • samthesixth:

      well...sort of...as noted, the LARGEST practicing state happens to be india, which is predominantly hindu with some muslim and some christians. it also happens in SE asia which has a limited muslim population.

      it would be more accurate to say that it happens where people are POOR and it happens that a large number of the poorer countries today also happen to be muslim. take that as you will.

    • 2 years ago
  • oh_dear
  • samthesixth
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    • samthesixth:

      jh,

      Indonesia, the largest muslim country in the world by capita, is in SE asia.

      As far as the poor thing--Saudi Arabia and Brunei are very wealthy Muslim countries where slavery is practiced to this day.

    • 2 years ago
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