According to research carried out by the organization Free the Slaves, more people are enslaved worldwide than ever before. In its 400 years, the transatlantic slave trade is estimated to have shipped up to 12 million Africans to various colonies in the West. Free the Slaves estimates that the number of people in slavery today is at least 27 million.
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center suggests that three out of four slavery victims are women and that half of all modern-day slaves are children. Countless other people are in other forms of servitude which are not legally classified as slavery, according to the Anti-Slavery Society, described ambiguously by some as unfree labour.
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Hi Gerard, Thanks for a great posting. If you or your readers would like to know more about modern slavery please visit our website: www.freetheslaves.net. On our site you can watch some award-winning films we've made, including a short film about slavery in the USA today that just won the main prize at the Telluride FIlm Festival.
To know more about how we will bring slavery to an end, you might like to have a look at my new book: Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves (on Amazon and everywhere else).
All best,
Kevin Bales
Thanks Kevin.
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