Saw some interesting facts about slavery the other day. A couple were from Alltime 10s on Youtube, and the others were elsewhere.
The US only imported about 485,000 slaves from 1776 until 1865.
Brazil imported over 5 million slaves.
There are still roughly 50,000 slaves within the US.
Slavery is illegal in every country, but there are more slaves now than at any other time in history.
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Re: Slavery
by gla22 » Thu Nov 07, 2013 11:33 am
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Re: Slavery
by spacemonkey » Thu Nov 07, 2013 11:38 am
Today, the chains are debt.
The hardest part of doing nothing is knowing when your done.
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Re: Slavery
by Leviathan » Thu Nov 07, 2013 11:57 am
They use very very loose definitions for slavery. Outside of a handful of isolated criminal incidents that can only be punished and not completely eradicated, actual slavery probably only takes place in a dozen or so countries (all the ones you would expect).
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Re: Slavery
by The Comrade » Thu Nov 07, 2013 1:24 pm
chattel and not giving your workers any human rights are two different things. it's pretty gross to cross the two.
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Re: Slavery
by Professor » Thu Nov 07, 2013 1:57 pm
Hmmm - I said Brazil. I may have meant the Caribbean islands? I can't remember. One way or another, some place imported 100x as many slaves as the US.
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