Slavery

Slavery As We Know It Now


**Background**: How slavery has to do with justice is because in the definition it is to treat with fairness, righteousness, and equitableness. Slavery goes against justice due to the fact that slavery treats people without fairness and equality.

**Anti-slavery:** It is the oldest known international human rights organizations its roots back all the way from 1787. This organization has worked to abolish slave trade and also slavery in the British colonies. Even though the organization fought for anti-slavery doesn’t mean that when they won that it was instant freedom the people still had to work for their master but now it would be called “Apprenticeship”. On August 1,1838 apprenticeship was abolished. On April 17, 1839 Anti-slavery and British governments formed a campaign to end slavery worldwide. This organization is still known today but as the Anti-Slavery International.     **Pro-slavery: Child Brides:** Many countries believe that child brides are a way for a family to gain acceptance. Young girls as old as 11 are sent off to be married, many girls rarely leave the house if they do it is to either go work in the fields or to get married. It is very rare to find a girl at the age of 16 who isn’t married. In these counties many families have lots of children and its hard to make enough money to feed eat mouth. So to lower the people in the house holds all of the girls are sent off to marry at young ages.

**Slavery by descent:** This is where someone pays back a loan or a debt. Even though this may seem like it is not a form of slavery, these people are paying back there debts under very harsh circumstances. Many people work in harsh environments, some are held at gun point, and most of them are treated like dogs.Landowners need their money back and the only way to do that is have the person work for them. In many cases is this where child labor comes into play, since families have to pay back a debt they might send there child to do the work while the parents still maintain the farm. <span style="color: rgb(26, 15, 219); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(91, 11, 14); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Child Labor:** This is the most common type of slavery. In this case children are being sent to work for minimum wage. These children are working 5 days a week for 10 hours just to make a dollar at the end of the day. Some of the these kids are working in harsh conditions, in the early years children used to be tide up at there station. This form of slavery the labors feel that if they have children working for them than they don’t have to pay as much. Children are very easy to manipulate, since they are young they won't stand up for themselves. <span style="color: rgb(91, 11, 14); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is a website that gives a detailed map of how many children there are around the world working. When you click on this [|LINK] <span style="color: rgb(91, 11, 14); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(91, 11, 14); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">enlarge the picture and read over how many children and at what age group are working around the world.

Not many governments are taking action in what is going on around the world today. So many organizations such as Anti-Slavery are taking action. The organization are finding way to get thier voices heard. Anti-Slavery just got 31,000 signatures from its Fight for Freedom Declaration at a meeting in parliment. Another way to make slavery stop is by realizing that everyone has a voice. If you find this Wikispace moving then stand up for someone who can't stand up for themselves. There are many organizations that you can join and make a contribution to. <span style="color: rgb(91, 11, 14); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Click the picture to find out about Zach Hunter and what he is fighting for and how you can help.
 * Action:**

http://www.antislavery.org/index.htm - Is a website devoted to Anti-slavery. The website has picture and ways to get involved. Many of this information on this page comes from this website. http://www.progressiveu.org/215711-modern-slavery-a-fresh-look-at-an-age-old-issue - is a website that has a lot of good information on the different types of slavery. http://beta.razoo.com/causes/take_action_fight_slavery - <span style="color: rgb(91, 11, 14); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">this website puts in a way that makes it easy for someone to get involved.